On 2023-05-20, Michael wrote:
> On Saturday, 20 May 2023 07:59:59 BST Philip Webb wrote:
>> I'm trying to install Gentoo in my new machine
>> & have got to the step of compiling a kernel.
>> I used the config file from my present machine, did 'make oldconfig'
>> & have then done 'make menuconfig' to include drivers etc.
>>
>> The 'make' stage goes on for a long time, then crashes doing
>> 'UPD drivers/base/firmware_loader/builtin/rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw.gen.S'
>> with message "make [5] *** No rule to make target
>> 'lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw' needed by
>> 'drivers/base/firmware_loader/ builtin/rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw.gen.o' Stop".
>>
>> The relevant line in Menuconfig is 'DeviceDrivers > NetworkDeviceSupport >
>> EthernetDriverSupport' under 'Realtek devices'.
>> I've tried it with 'Realtek8169/8168/...' 'Y' or 'M' or 'N'
>> & also with 'Realtek devices' as 'N'. I also tried a 'make clean'.
>> The same error goes on happening.
>>
>> Since I don't have anything by Realtek for networking
>> -- sound uses Realtek -- , I can't understand the behaviour above.
>>
>> Can anyone offer any advice ?
>
> The compilation complains it is missing the firmware required by a realtek
> NIC, probably a setting inherited from the config settings of the old kernel?
>
> You eventually compiled it with "N". I suspect the order in which you
> configured/compiled it plays a role in this error.
>
> Since you do not have this hardware, set it to "N", then run:
Could this be the manually defined list of firmware blobs to include in
the kernel image, and not something automatically pulled in by a driver?
I'm not sure what's the quickest way to check, perhaps this works?:
grep CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE /usr/src/linux/.config
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Nuno Silva
