Bug 89871 - nouveau diver in kernel 3.5.7 - 4.0.0-rc6 on PPC broken
Summary: nouveau diver in kernel 3.5.7 - 4.0.0-rc6 on PPC broken
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: DRI
Classification: Unclassified
Component: DRM/other (show other bugs)
Version: XOrg git
Hardware: PowerPC Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Default DRI bug account
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Reported: 2015-04-02 08:51 UTC by Dan Smolik
Modified: 2019-10-14 13:20 UTC (History)
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Description Dan Smolik 2015-04-02 08:51:12 UTC 
Created attachment 114825 [details]
dmesg output 3.19.3

I have PowerMac G5 machine with dual PPC. On Debian wheezy Xserver works.
I upgrade to jessie with kernel 3.16 and Xserver stop working. I tested these kernels:

vmlinux-3.4.106
vmlinux-3.5.7
vmlinux-3.7.9
vmlinux-3.8.13
vmlinux-3.14.37
vmlinux-3.17.8
vmlinux-3.18.10
vmlinux-3.19.3
vmlinux-4.0.0-rc6

It looks like that between 3.5.7 and 3.8.13 something change and DRM part of nouveau diver and driver stop working:
I tested above kernels and problem is the same this dmesg output is from 
3.19.3
[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[   10.548060] checking generic (98020000 10e000) vs hw (98000000 8000000)
[   10.548066] fb: switching to nouveaufb from OFfb NVDA,Displ
[   10.555299] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25
[   10.557295] nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:0a:00.0] BOOT0  : 0x043200a4
[   10.557310] nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:0a:00.0] Chipset: NV43 (NV43)
[   10.557316] nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:0a:00.0] Family : NV40
[   10.557567] nouveau ![   VBIOS][0000:0a:00.0] unable to locate usable image
[   10.557575] nouveau E[  DEVICE][0000:0a:00.0] failed to create 0x10000001, -22
[   10.557584] nouveau E[     DRM] failed to create 0x00000080, -22
[   10.558138] nouveau: probe of 0000:0a:00.0 failed with error -22

With older kernel < 3.7.9 nouveau kernel part works but newer Xorg from jessie doesn't detect videocard.
Comment 1 Martin Peres 2019-10-14 13:20:14 UTC 
Hi,

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To avoid migrating out of date bugs, I am now closing all the bugs that did not see any activity in the past year. If the issue is still happening, please create a new bug in the relevant project at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm (use misc by default).

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