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)

[Samuli Suominen]

On 01/09/14 03:37, Patrick Lauer wrote:
> On Sunday 31 August 2014 17:13:49 Samuli Suominen wrote:
>> Trying to raise awareness:
>>
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=be2ea723b1d023b3d385d
>> 3b791ee4607cbfb20ca
>>
> What are the effects for end-users?

Nothing if they follow the CONFIG_CHECK that tells them to set
CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n.
And it's it's left to =y or they don't upgrade kernel _at least_ to 3.7,
i.e. not paying attention, then...

>
> Will things just quietly fail hard (e.g. radeon driver -> no firmware -> screen
> corrupted/black)?

...this.

>
>
>> http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-fs/udev/udev-9999.ebuild
>> ?r1=1.317&r2=1.318
>> http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-fs/udev/udev-9999.ebuil
>> d?r1=1.318&r2=1.319
>>
>> I will release a GLEP 42 news item *at the same time* =sys-fs/udev-217
>> is released into ~arch, so nobody
>> will get caught off guard
>>
>> Consider this message a prenotice, now you know it's gone
> ... one more win for eudev. Sigh.
>

They are planning in dropping the userspace loader as well, it's
redudant afterall.

Most firmware are kernel loadable by >= 3.7
Everything is kernel loadable (3.7 and few later versions had some
exceptions for more rare drivers) in latest