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SubjectRe: Kernel almost hangs when CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=y
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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 instead of Kconfig helping them build-in firmware. And then we
> should go ahead and remove CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE completely...

That would suck, suppose this radeon thing is the only console you've
got (ppc64/sparc64 don't have text mode iirc) and userspace doesn't come
up?




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