drm/nouveau/acpi: allow non-optimus setups to load vbios from acpi
commit a3d0b121 upstream. There appear to be a crop of new hardware where the vbios is not available from PROM/PRAMIN, but there is a valid _ROM method in ACPI. The data read from PCIROM almost invariably contains invalid instructions (still has the x86 opcodes), which makes this a low-risk way to try to obtain a valid vbios image. Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76475Signed-off-by: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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