#6364: xorg ati driver: radeon firmware link is out of date
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Reporter: ken@… | Owner: ken@…
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.8
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Keywords:
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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index.html) but out of date.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
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