Messages in this thread | | | From | Zeno Davatz <> | Date | Fri, 3 Apr 2020 19:58:57 +0200 | Subject | Re: acr: failed to load firmware with Kernel 5.6. Kernel 5.5 works just fine. |
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On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 7:23 PM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 1:21 PM Zeno Davatz <zdavatz@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 6:59 PM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > > > > > > Ben -- probably the ACR changes in 5.6 don't fall back nicely anymore > > > when there's no firmware? The load shouldn't be failed, just GR > > > disabled... > > > > > > Zeno -- if you grab linux-firmware, it should be all better. Not sure > > > if you're missing it on purpose or by accident. > > > > Thank you, Ilia > > > > I will try that on my Gentoo/Funtoo machine now. So far linux-firmware > > was not needed with Kernel 5.5, so it was not installed on my machine. > > It was needed on 5.5 as well. It's just that it fell back gracefully > without firmware, and you didn't get any acceleration features.
Do I need any of these enabled for linux-firmware to load properly in Kernel 5.6?
-*- Firmware loading facility │ │ () Build named firmware blobs into the kernel binary │ │ [ ] Enable the firmware sysfs fallback mechanism │ │ [ ] Enable compressed firmware support
Best Zeno
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