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Subject: Re: Kernel almost hangs when CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=y
From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= <michel@daenzer.net>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>, David Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>,
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On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 19:17 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: 
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:10:45PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> > do you want something ala:
> > 
> > config EXTRA_FIRMWARE
> >     string
> >     default ""
> >     append "FOO" if BAR
> >     append "FOZ" if BAZ
> > 
> > or maybe a new type "list" which would behave as a comma/space separated value.
> > 
> > config EXTRA_FIRMWARE
> >     list "bla"
> >     append "FOO" if BAR
> >     append "FOZ" if BAZ
> 
> Yeah, actually Kyle's note (http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/29/289) makes
> much more sense for linux and the whole firmware in the kernel deal.
> So it looks like the drivers should be taught to wait for userspace to
> appear [...]

What would be the point of building radeon into the kernel then? It's
not gonna be active before the module could be loaded...


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