Changeset a045599

Timestamp:

03/05/2015 03:19:44 AM (8 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 7.10, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, ken/inkscape-core-mods, lazarus, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/python-mods, qt5new, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226

Children:

f086d778

Parents:

80dbc4c8

Message:

First attempt at allowing for firmware which is not built in to the kernel.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@15609 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• x/installing/x7driver-ati.xml (modified) (1 diff)

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -48 +48 @@
       <para>March 4rd, 2015</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - (radeon) firmware [ discussed in the ATI Xorg
+          driver ] does not have to be built in if CONFIGURE_DRM_RADEON is a
+          module.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Archive unneeded agg library.</para>

x/installing/x7driver-ati.xml

@@ -158 +158 @@
       </tip>
 
+      <para>
+        Alternatively, if you change CONFIG_DRM_RADEON to '=m' in your .config
+        the firmware can be loaded automatically from /lib/firmware/radeon when
+        it installs the module. This offers a tiny space saving, but also means
+        that the screen will be blank for a longer time before the framebuffer
+        appears. Distros take this approach because it is not practical to
+        specify every possible firmware and the kernel would be excessively big.
+      </para>
+
       <indexterm zone="xorg-ati-driver xorg-ati-firmware-kernel">
         <primary sortas="d-xorg-ati-firmware">xorg-ati-firmware</primary>