Opened 12 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
#6364 closed defect (fixed)
xorg ati driver: radeon firmware link is out of date
| Reported by: | Owned by: | Bruce Dubbs | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 7.8 |
| Component: | BOOK | Version: | SVN |
| Severity: | medium | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description
At the moment, the radeon driver has a note about firmware, with a link to Alex Deucher's freedesktop.org site.
That is convenient (easy to download files in a browser - wget just gets index.html) but out of date. The radeon firmware is now in the radeon/ directory of linux-firmware, which is rather less easy to download from a browser (but can be done). The LICENSE.radeon has moved to the top-level with the other licenses and is now dated 2015, and running a check on kaveri_ce.bin shows that some of the content has changed.
Using hexdump -C to dump each version to a text file, then diffing those text files, shows a lot of changes, so best to use the current versions.
I'll do this with LFS ticket 3771.
For the moment, I'm inclined to just point to linux-firmware's cgit, and title the link as "linux-firmware (in the radeon directory)" - from there it is a little awkward for the first time user, no sure if any further info is needed.
Main discussion will be on LFS ticket 3771
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 11 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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comment:2 by , 11 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Fixed at revision 15854.
It still might need some tweaking, but that can be done without a ticket or a new ticket.
Passing to Bruce.