130401 Mick wrote: > On Monday 01 Apr 2013 02:54:08 Philip Webb wrote: >> I've spent a lot of today trying to fix a glitch in starting 'dhcpcd' >> after upgrading to udev-200 ; I outlined it in a msg to gentoo-dev . -- details snipped -- > Thanks for sharing this Philip. > I was surprised to see that firmware for NICs > are meant to be added in this kernel config option. > I thought that this config option was only for the video card firmware. > > # cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep EXTRA_FIRMWARE > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="radeon/R600_rlc.bin radeon/R700_rlc.bin" > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware/" > > In my /lib/firmware I have: > > # ls -la /lib/firmware/ > total 1448 > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Sep 14 2012 . > drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 12288 Mar 31 09:26 .. > drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Feb 4 2012 b43 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 14 2012 intel-ucode > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1451687 Sep 14 2012 microcode.dat > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 31 09:58 radeon > > and from dmesg I can see that all of these get loaded > *without* being defined in the CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE= ... > On this box in any case I do not have sys-kernel/linux-firmware installed, > but have installed x11-drivers/radeon-ucode for the video card > and net-wireless/b43-fwcutter for the wireless NIC. > Are you saying that the correct way to go about this > is to uninstall these packages > and instead define the firmware in the kernel in CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE= ? > PS. I'm currently running kernel-3.7.10-gentoo.
No, if your way works, keep doing it. I installed 'linux-firmware' long ago, but may not have used it since. I was faced with the peculiar problem I described, ie after updating to udev-200 & following the news-item advice the 1st attempt at 'dhcpcd' stalled, but a 2nd attempt always worked. Not wanting to face this delay every time I reboot, I investigated with the results described. 'dhcpcd' is now noticeably quicker than with <= udev-197 & the new kernel naming system seems a small general improvement, so my advice wb to update to udev-200 & then solve any other problems. I assume the underlying problem for me was that the kernel took time trying to find the firmware & meanwhile the Dhcpcd process went to sleep or froze. Now that the firmware is compiled into the kernel, there's no delay. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
