Re: Kernel almost hangs when CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=y

From: Michel Dänzer
Date: Mon Aug 29 2011 - 13:38:44 EST


On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 19:17 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:10:45PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> > do you want something ala:
> >
> > config EXTRA_FIRMWARE
> > string
> > default ""
> > append "FOO" if BAR
> > append "FOZ" if BAZ
> >
> > or maybe a new type "list" which would behave as a comma/space separated value.
> >
> > config EXTRA_FIRMWARE
> > list "bla"
> > append "FOO" if BAR
> > append "FOZ" if BAZ
>
> Yeah, actually Kyle's note (http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/29/289) makes
> much more sense for linux and the whole firmware in the kernel deal.
> So it looks like the drivers should be taught to wait for userspace to
> appear [...]

What would be the point of building radeon into the kernel then? It's
not gonna be active before the module could be loaded...


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