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--- Comment #21 from headwall 2012-05-01 10:24:20 PDT ---
I'm on a Mac Pro 1,1 with the original ATI X1900XT card, and had similar
problems booting via EFI. After the modesetting was initialized the screen went
blank, but the computer completed b
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--- Comment #21 from headwall 2012-05-01 10:24:20 PDT ---
I'm on a Mac Pro 1,1 with the original ATI X1900XT card, and had similar
problems booting via EFI. After the modesetting was initialized the screen went
blank, but the computer completed b
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--- Comment #20 from Austin Lund 2012-04-10 18:45:03
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> IIRC, Matthew Garret had a patch to fetch the vbios from EFI during early
> boot.
Is this online anywhere? Do you have a link?
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--- Comment #20 from Austin Lund 2012-04-10 18:45:03
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> IIRC, Matthew Garret had a patch to fetch the vbios from EFI during early
> boot.
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--- Comment #19 from Alex Deucher 2012-04-10 06:14:26 PDT
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IIRC, Matthew Garret had a patch to fetch the vbios from EFI during early boot.
Also, there is a way to fetch the vbios on legacy free EFI systems via ACPI,
however, I don't know if a
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--- Comment #19 from Alex Deucher 2012-04-10 06:14:26 PDT ---
IIRC, Matthew Garret had a patch to fetch the vbios from EFI during early boot.
Also, there is a way to fetch the vbios on legacy free EFI systems via ACPI,
however, I don't know if ap
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--- Comment #18 from James Tyrrell 2012-04-09 20:15:22
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What would it take to get this patch into mainline? Like I said before I have a
MacBook Pro 8,3 and the patch works for me, allowing me to boot via EFI and use
the Radeon graphics ca
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--- Comment #18 from James Tyrrell 2012-04-09 20:15:22 PDT
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What would it take to get this patch into mainline? Like I said before I have a
MacBook Pro 8,3 and the patch works for me, allowing me to boot via EFI and use
the Radeon graphics ca
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--- Comment #17 from Chi-Thanh Christopher Nguyen
2012-03-31 09:39:33 PDT ---
Nouveau allows to load vbios from image file now.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6/commit/?id=c9b07e9e85e5b7fe38c9f009967e8bed51d3760b
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--- Comment #17 from Chi-Thanh Christopher Nguyen
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Nouveau allows to load vbios from image file now.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6/commit/?id=c9b07e9e85e5b7fe38c9f009967e8bed51d3760b
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--- Comment #16 from James Tyrrell 2012-03-29 03:03:58
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This works for my MacBook Pro 8,3. It allows me to use my thunderbolt monitor
whilst booting via EFI, something that is not possible when using the Intel
IGD.
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This works for my MacBook Pro 8,3. It allows me to use my thunderbolt monitor
whilst booting via EFI, something that is not possible when using the Intel
IGD.
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--- Comment #15 from Stefan D?singer 2012-02-05
02:28:21 PST ---
Created attachment 56620
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dmesg output
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--- Comment #14 from Stefan D?singer 2012-02-05
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Created attachment 56619
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lspci output after standby
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--- Comment #13 from Stefan D?singer 2012-02-05
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Created attachment 56618
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lspci output before standby
The radeon.ko module was loaded at this time with the firmware hack
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--- Comment #12 from Stefan D?singer 2012-02-05
02:25:05 PST ---
It looks like there are more things odd in the iMac5,1 firmware:
*) A lot of PCI devices don't work when booted via efi, most importantly the
USB hosts. The kernel complains about
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Created attachment 56618
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lspci output before standby
The radeon.ko module was loaded at this time with the firmware hack
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--- Comment #12 from Stefan Dösinger 2012-02-05
02:25:05 PST ---
It looks like there are more things odd in the iMac5,1 firmware:
*) A lot of PCI devices don't work when booted via efi, most importantly the
USB hosts. The kernel complains about
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--- Comment #11 from Stefan Dösinger 2012-02-05
00:38:27 UTC ---
Still doesn't work for me, Linux 3.2.1, iMac5,1. Loading the module writes this
in dmesg:
[drm] radeon defaulting to kernel modesetting.
[drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
c
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--- Comment #11 from Stefan D?singer 2012-02-05
00:38:27 UTC ---
Still doesn't work for me, Linux 3.2.1, iMac5,1. Loading the module writes this
in dmesg:
[drm] radeon defaulting to kernel modesetting.
[drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
c
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--- Comment #10 from J?r?my Lal 2012-01-15 04:09:51 PST
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linux 3.2-rc7 is working without any patch, just radeon kms, on iMac12,2 EFI
boot. (grub-efi-amd64)
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--- Comment #10 from Jérémy Lal 2012-01-15 04:09:51 PST ---
linux 3.2-rc7 is working without any patch, just radeon kms, on iMac12,2 EFI
boot. (grub-efi-amd64)
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--- Comment #9 from sh...@bitspin.org 2011-05-19 06:22:52 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> Mine is [1002:6740] :
> [9.285052] [drm] Loading TURKS Microcode
>
> which kernel version are you using ?
2.6.39-rc7-00215-g194a526
git head with lo
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--- Comment #9 from shirk at bitspin.org 2011-05-19 06:22:52 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> Mine is [1002:6740] :
> [9.285052] [drm] Loading TURKS Microcode
>
> which kernel version are you using ?
2.6.39-rc7-00215-g194a526
git head with
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--- Comment #8 from Jérémy Lal 2011-05-19 05:34:40 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> Since Jérémy has a working setup with GPU acceleration I can only suspect a
> problem in the microcode. iMac12,2 has a Radeon HD 6970M which utilizes the
> C
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--- Comment #8 from J?r?my Lal 2011-05-19 05:34:40 PDT
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> Since J?r?my has a working setup with GPU acceleration I can only suspect a
> problem in the microcode. iMac12,2 has a Radeon HD 6970M which utilizes the
>
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--- Comment #7 from sh...@bitspin.org 2011-05-19 03:30:41 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> I'm booting an imac12,2 in UEFI mode (need a "Run EFI in physical mode" patch
> before doing so),
> here's how :
> 1) boot from latest ubuntu live CD (hol
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--- Comment #7 from shirk at bitspin.org 2011-05-19 03:30:41 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> I'm booting an imac12,2 in UEFI mode (need a "Run EFI in physical mode" patch
> before doing so),
> here's how :
> 1) boot from latest ubuntu live CD (
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--- Comment #6 from Ortwin Glück 2011-05-17 04:14:24 PDT ---
Sorry for being slightly off-topic. I was implicitly referring to bug 27314,
where I observe the same problem "radeon :01:00.0: Invalid ROM contents"
when booting in legacy mode (wh
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--- Comment #6 from Ortwin Gl?ck 2011-05-17 04:14:24 PDT ---
Sorry for being slightly off-topic. I was implicitly referring to bug 27314,
where I observe the same problem "radeon :01:00.0: Invalid ROM contents"
when booting in legacy mode (wh
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--- Comment #5 from sh...@bitspin.org 2011-05-17 03:31:16 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #4)
I assume you're not familiar with mac or didn't read the while bug history.
Mac are booted using the EFI runtime one of the successors to BIOS.
> What is t
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--- Comment #5 from shirk at bitspin.org 2011-05-17 03:31:16 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #4)
I assume you're not familiar with mac or didn't read the while bug history.
Mac are booted using the EFI runtime one of the successors to BIOS.
> What i
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--- Comment #4 from Ortwin Glück 2011-05-17 02:50:40 PDT ---
What is the real reason that the driver doesn't see the video BIOS? Is it
looking at the wrong address? Is some MMU wrongly setup? I mean the video BIOS
is obviously there, if you can e
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What is the real reason that the driver doesn't see the video BIOS? Is it
looking at the wrong address? Is some MMU wrongly setup? I mean the video BIOS
is obviously there, if you can e
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--- Comment #3 from Jérémy Lal 2011-05-16 13:27:40 PDT ---
I'm booting an imac12,2 in UEFI mode (need a "Run EFI in physical mode" patch
before doing so),
here's how :
1) boot from latest ubuntu live CD (hold alt, or c, at boot)
2) dump the bios
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--- Comment #3 from J?r?my Lal 2011-05-16 13:27:40 PDT
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I'm booting an imac12,2 in UEFI mode (need a "Run EFI in physical mode" patch
before doing so),
here's how :
1) boot from latest ubuntu live CD (hold alt, or c, at boot)
2) dump the bios
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--- Comment #2 from sh...@bitspin.org 2011-05-12 05:06:39 PDT ---
Hi,
since I'm triple booting my MBP for some time now (using mostly grub2@efi)
I integrated your patch im my local git tree and can confirm it works as
intended.
Without using rad
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--- Comment #2 from shirk at bitspin.org 2011-05-12 05:06:39 PDT ---
Hi,
since I'm triple booting my MBP for some time now (using mostly grub2 at efi)
I integrated your patch im my local git tree and can confirm it works as
intended.
Without usi
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