10rc1; nvidia 940mx/gm108 bios unable to locate usable image

[Van Ly <van.ly%sdf.org@localhost>]

On the ThinkPad e470 I noticed the following details about the gpu.

  1 $ pcictl pci0 list -N
  2 001:00:0: NVIDIA GeForce 940MX (3D display, revision 0xa2) [nouveau0]
  3 
  4 $ dmesg
  5 nouveau0: NVIDIA GM108 (1180d0a2)
  6 i915drmkms0: interrupting at msi4 vec 0 (i915drmkms0)
  7 nouveau0: autoconfiguration error: error: bios: unable to locate usable image
  8 nouveau0: autoconfiguration error: error: bios ctor failed, -22
  9 nouveau0: autoconfiguration error: unable to create nouveau device: 22
 10 i915drmkms0: notice: Failed to load DMC firmware i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin. Disabling runtime power management.
 11 [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20200114 for i915drmkms0 on minor 0
 12 intelfb0 at i915drmkms0
 13 [drm] DRM_I915_DEBUG enabled
 14 [drm] DRM_I915_DEBUG_GEM enabled
 15 intelfb0: framebuffer at 0xe0040000, size 1920x1080, depth 32, stride 7680

The bios and intel firmware are at their latest release installed.

Hope this is of use for the driver developers.

VL