Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-9999 (and upcoming 217) no longer has userspace firmware loader (will need Linux 3.7 for firmware's to be loaded)
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 06:41:20
Message-Id: 20141111064113.GA28132@vapier.wh0rd.info
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-9999 (and upcoming 217) no longer has userspace firmware loader (will need Linux 3.7 for firmware's to be loaded) by Samuli Suominen
1 On 01 Sep 2014 06:30, Samuli Suominen wrote:
2 > On 01/09/14 03:37, Patrick Lauer wrote:
3 > >> Consider this message a prenotice, now you know it's gone
4 > > ... one more win for eudev. Sigh.
5 >
6 > They are planning in dropping the userspace loader as well, it's
7 > redudant afterall.
8 >
9 > Most firmware are kernel loadable by >= 3.7
10 > Everything is kernel loadable (3.7 and few later versions had some
11 > exceptions for more rare drivers) in latest
12
13 echo /bin/busybox mdev > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
14 -mike

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