- Workaround amdgpu and radeon issues by adding a new swiotlb option.

   defaults to disabled ( old way ) while still possible to enable and test the new way / code.
   The newer code does not work good or does not work at all on some HW ( mine as example )
   see:
    https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/5/737
    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198511
    https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105038

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 35 deletions

diff --git a/sys-kernel/linux-image/files/0001-Revert-ath10k-activate-user-space-firmware-loading-a.patch b/sys-kernel/linux-image/files/0001-Revert-ath10k-activate-user-space-firmware-loading-a.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 281ede4b..00000000
--- a/sys-kernel/linux-image/files/0001-Revert-ath10k-activate-user-space-firmware-loading-a.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-From 180dee4ae482fd31fb7f53f7e2d2bd62d1210383 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Gabriel Craciunescu <nix.or.die@gmail.com>
-Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 12:54:26 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] Revert "ath10k: activate user space firmware loading again"
- This reverts commit c0cc00f250e19c717fc9cdbdb7f55aaa569c7498.
-
-  Huh ? That fixes nothing but introduce *again* flooding users
-  dmesg with 'strange' firmware loading failures.
-  As example a hw1.0 QCA9377 card floods with:
-
-  ...
-  ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/pre-cal-pci-0000:03:00.0.bin failed with error -2
-  ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/cal-pci-0000:03:00.0.bin failed with error -2
-  ath10k_pci 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for ath10k/QCA9377/hw1.0/firmware-6.bin failed with error -2
-  ...
----
- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c
-index a4f635820f35..9b4c4facf725 100644
---- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c
-+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c
-@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ static const struct firmware *ath10k_fetch_fw_file(struct ath10k *ar,
- 		dir = ".";
- 
- 	snprintf(filename, sizeof(filename), "%s/%s", dir, file);
--	ret = request_firmware(&fw, filename, ar->dev);
-+	ret = request_firmware_direct(&fw, filename, ar->dev);
- 	ath10k_dbg(ar, ATH10K_DBG_BOOT, "boot fw request '%s': %d\n",
- 		   filename, ret);
- 
--- 
-2.15.0
-