On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 08:38:49PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > The delay of 60 seconds suggests that firmware is NOT being loaded > (it is a timeout). I'm not up to speed with udev (systemd) changes > re userspace firmware loaders - I know there was a change in 3.16-rc > where the new option was enabled, but the help text implied it > should not be used on a recent system (and in fact for me it did not > make any difference) - but perhaps changing your setting of > CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER might make a difference. [ At the > moment I'm on my intel, which does not use firmware, so I am not > sure whether setting =y or not setting this worked on my radeons in > 3.14 ].
Re that paragraph: please note that I build my firmware into the kernel (i.e. copy it to /lib/firmware when I build the system, then set up my .config for that). That is regarded as non-optimal (the firmware is stored in kernel memory, which is not swappable, and therefore that memory cannot be reused once the firmware has been loaded), but it does seem to work comparatively reliably. Depends how much memory you have, of course, but also how much firmware you need, which is why distros will not want to do it (they typically have all possible firmware available, and loaded as-needed). ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
