On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Andrew Benton <b3n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:53:52 -0500
> Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Upon review of udev due to a question on -support, we are creating some
> > directories that I don't know are still required.
> >
> > install -dv /lib/{firmware,udev/devices/pts}
> >
> > I think we still need /lib/udev/devices, but does anyone know if we
> > still need:
> >
> > /lib/firmware
> > /lib/udev/devices/pts
> >
>
> /lib/firmware is only needed if you have some hardware which needs a
> precompiled binary firmware to be loaded into the kernel before it will
> work. The linux firmware project supports a lot of hardware (I would
> point you to a url but kernel org is still down, is it gone for good?).
> /lib/udev/devices/pts is an empty directory that the udev bootscript
> used to copy into /dev to allow a tmpfs to be mounted on /dev/pts.
> Without it terminal emulators (roxterm, gnome terminal) won't work for me.
>
Use it myself, the Radeon kms module for r600 chips & higher needs it.
http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonBuildHowTo#Missingfirmware
Basically, compile as module, dump a few files into /lib/firmware, and
vola. I think it will get more common in the future, as the kernel seems to
have rules against including "new" firmware in some cases (I do not know
when they say yes or no)
> Andy
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