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On 16 June 2014 12:11, Daniel Shub <Daniel.Shub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am trying to use the open source Radeon driver on Linux with a passed through secondary VGA device. I am running Xen 4.4.0 on Arch Linux (kernel 3.14.6). I have Gigabyte X79-UP4 motherboard and two Gigabyte GV-R545-1GI (Radeon 5450 chipset) video cards. I can pass either (the primary one that the Dom0 BIOS comes up on or the secondary one) VGA device to a Windows XP DomU (qemu-xen-traditional) as a secondary VGA device in conjunction with virtual Cirrus VGA device. The passed device works perfectly and is stable across DomU reboots. I can also pass either VGA device to an Arch Linux (kernel 3.14.6) DomU (qemu-xen-traditional) as a secondary device and the passed device works perfectly with the Catalyst closed source drivers, but doesn't work at all with the open source Radeon driver. I know I should just be happy that I can pass through VGA devices at all, but I keep hoping I will be able to get it to work with the open source drivers.

$ dmesg | grep -E '(radeon|drm)'
[ Â Â0.436833] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ Â Â0.441222] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
[ Â Â0.442083] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (CEDAR 0x1002:0x68F9 0x1458:0x254A).
[ Â Â0.442096] [drm] register mmio base: 0xF3000000
[ Â Â0.442097] [drm] register mmio size: 131072
[ Â Â0.442127] radeon 0000:00:05.0: Expecting atombios for evergreen GPU
[ Â Â0.442161] radeon 0000:00:05.0: Fatal error during GPU init
[ Â Â0.442187] [drm] radeon: finishing device.
[ Â Â0.449566] radeon: probe of 0000:00:05.0 failed with error -22

The errors look essentially the same as https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57831, where the claim is that the VBIOS is not being passed correctly. How can I determine if my issue is that Xen/Qemu is not passing the the correct VBIOS? If this is in fact the case, is there a way to fix this without having to use the closed source drivers or enter the hell that is primary VGA pass trough? Is it worth filing a bug report some place? The driver developers closed the bug as invalid even though the closed source driver handles the issue gracefully.
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Re: [Xen-users] Open source drivers with secondary VGA pass through