On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, 20:25:48 LHST, [email protected] wrote: > I used the kernel 3.5 modified by Lemote [1] as a base. Then, I ran > the deblob-3.5 script [2] locally. The machine I use for testing uses > the radeon video driver which loads a binary blob on vanilla > kernel. By default, the firmware loading timeout is 60 seconds and, > because the binary firmware has been removed after running the deblob > script, the deblobbed kernel waits 60 seconds for nothing at boot: > beside nothing is printed on the display during that time, this is a > serious time penalty.
If only proprietory firmware exists the deblob scripts should be disabling the load attempts too. Thanks, kk
