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From:   Zeno Davatz <zdavatz@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 4 Jun 2020 17:04:08 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Nouveau] NVIDIA GP107 (137000a1) - acr: failed to load firmware
To:     Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu>
Cc:     nouveau <nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org>,
        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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Dear Ilia

Thank you for your reply.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 4:36 PM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> Starting with kernel 5.6, loading nouveau without firmware (for GPUs
> where it is required, such as yours) got broken.
>
> You are loading nouveau without firmware, so it fails.
>
> The firmware needs to be available to the kernel at the time of nouveau loading.

How can I tell the kernel to load the firmware?

Best
Zeno