On 05/03/10 23:32, Martin Ward wrote: > its a bug in udev, if relevant firmware is missing it hangs for about 60 > secs trying to load the missing module, two ways to fix this > > either grab the missing firm ware from > http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/radeon_ucode/ > That page has 2 pieces of firmware, R600_rlc.bin and R700_rlc.bin my kernel is looking for firmware called RV770_pfp.bin and RV770_me.bin. From dmesg:
platform r600_cp.0: firmware: using built-in firmware radeon/RV770_pfp.bin platform r600_cp.0: firmware: using built-in firmware radeon/RV770_me.bin > or patch udev with this patch from arch > http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/udev/repos/core-i686/firmware-loader-fix-missing-firmware.patch > No, the hang happens with the firmware built into the kernel (so it doesn't need udev to load) and it happens before the kernel has mounted the hard drive, before control is passed to sysvinit and before udev is run. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
