Author: ken
Date: Wed Feb 28 01:27:37 2018
New Revision: 19893
Log:
Firmware - rewording, it could have been read as if Nvidia Maxwell cards were
ATI devices.
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/postlfs/config/firmware.xml
Modified: trunk/BOOK/postlfs/config/firmware.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/postlfs/config/firmware.xml Tue Feb 27 22:05:52 2018
(r19892)
+++ trunk/BOOK/postlfs/config/firmware.xml Wed Feb 28 01:27:37 2018
(r19893)
@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Firmware for video controllers. On x86 machines this seems to
mostly
- apply to ATI devices : Radeons, the later AMD amdgpu chips, and Nvidia
- Maxwell cards require firmware to be able to use KMS
+ apply to ATI devices (Radeon and AMDGPU chips) and Nvidia
+ Maxwell and Pascal cards which all require firmware to be able to use KMS
(kernel modesetting - the preferred option) as well as for Xorg. For
earlier radeon chips (before the R600), the firmware is still in the
kernel.</para>
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
Extract this file in the normal way to create an
<filename>intel-ucode</filename>
directory, containing various blobs with names in the form
XX-YY-ZZ.</para>
- <note><para>The above URL may not be the latest page. If it is not,
+ <note><para>The above URL may not be the latest page. If it is not,
a line at the top of the list will direct you to the latest page.
</para></note>
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