On 05/03/10 09:38, Duncan Baynes wrote: > Hello, > > Just built a 64bit lfs 6.6, everything went smoothly, excellent work as > always! > > I've been playing around with the 2.6.33 kernel including the new radeon > driver. > > The results are pretty awesome. I now have a high resolution console > that is a pleasure to use. I was thinking it might be a nice feature to > add as an option... probably as a hint. > > The basic path is as follows: > > 1) compile the 2.6.33 kernel with firmware support, initramfs and the > radeon driver enabled > 2) create an initrd image for the kernel (there is a hint for this already) > 3) decompress initrd image, mount it and insert the firmware bin for > your card
You don't need to use and initrd, you can compile the firmware into the kernel. If it's firmware that comes with the kernel use the option CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y And if you want to use firmware that doesn't come with the kernel, copy it into the firmware folder in the kernel source and use the option CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="<name-of-firmware>" My system hangs early in the boot process if I enable kernel mode setting. From the kernel's help page > This code support the following hardware : R1XX,R2XX,R3XX,R4XX,R5XX > (radeon up to X1950). Works is underway to provide support for R6XX, > R7XX and newer hardware (radeon from HD2XXX to HD4XXX). I live in hope Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
