Changeset ece1f60d for postlfs/config/firmware.xml

Timestamp:

07/31/2023 01:44:37 PM (11 months ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

12.0, 12.1, ken/TL2024, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, plabs/newcss, python3.11, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, xry111/llvm18

Children:

7ebdf4e

Parents:

4e37f01

git-author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (07/30/2023 10:59:07 AM)

git-committer:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (07/31/2023 01:44:37 PM)

Message:

firmware: Update NVIDIA firmware info

1. It does not make sense to tell the users "enable CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU" here. It's the kernel driver needs the firmware, not the opposite. So drop the kernel configuration section here.
2. Port the script to Python 3. I've checked the md5sums of the output binaries and they are same with the original version.
3. Bump the NVIDIA driver blob version. If the blob is not downloaded or extracted, the script will tell to download 340.32, so we use the same version to avoid confusion.
4. Update nouveau wiki link.

File:

• postlfs/config/firmware.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

postlfs/config/firmware.xml

@@ -570 +570 @@
         For more exact information about which chips need extracted firmware, see
         <ulink url=
-          "https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/#firmware"/>.
-      </para>
-
-      <para>
-        First, the kernel Nvidia driver must be activated:
-      </para>
-
-<screen><literal>Device Drivers ---&gt;
-  Graphics support ---&gt;
-      Direct Rendering Manager ---&gt;
-        &lt;*&gt; Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 ... support)  [CONFIG_DRM]
-      &lt;*/M&gt; Nouveau (NVIDIA) cards                          [CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU]</literal></screen>
+          "https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/VideoAcceleration.html"/>.
+      </para>
 
       <para>
@@ -591 +581 @@
       <para>
         If the firmware has not been made available in linux-firmware,
-        for the old chips mentioned in the nouveau wiki link above ensure you have
-        installed <xref linkend="python2"/> and run the following commands:
-      </para>
-
-      <!-- Someone please port this to Python 3.  -->
-<screen><userinput>wget https://raw.github.com/imirkin/re-vp2/master/extract_firmware.py
-wget https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/325.15/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-325.15.run
-sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-325.15.run --extract-only
-python2 extract_firmware.py
+        for the old chips mentioned in the nouveau wiki link above
+        run the following commands:
+      </para>
+
+<screen><userinput>wget https://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/nvidia-firmware/extract_firmware.py
+wget https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/340.32/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-340.32.run
+sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-340.32.run --extract-only
+python3 extract_firmware.py
 mkdir -p /lib/firmware/nouveau
 cp -d nv* vuc-* /lib/firmware/nouveau/</userinput></screen>