From: | Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> | ||
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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: | Mon, 01 Sep 2014 00:37:40 | ||
Message-Id: | 1514628.qhGUxs4uBj@localhost | ||
In Reply to: | [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 Sunday 31 August 2014 17:13:49 Samuli Suominen wrote: |
2 | > Trying to raise awareness: |
3 | > |
4 | > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=be2ea723b1d023b3d385d |
5 | > 3b791ee4607cbfb20ca |
6 | > |
7 | |
8 | What are the effects for end-users? |
9 | |
10 | Will things just quietly fail hard (e.g. radeon driver -> no firmware -> screen |
11 | corrupted/black)? |
12 | |
13 | |
14 | > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-fs/udev/udev-9999.ebuild |
15 | > ?r1=1.317&r2=1.318 |
16 | > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-fs/udev/udev-9999.ebuil |
17 | > d?r1=1.318&r2=1.319 |
18 | > |
19 | > I will release a GLEP 42 news item *at the same time* =sys-fs/udev-217 |
20 | > is released into ~arch, so nobody |
21 | > will get caught off guard |
22 | > |
23 | > Consider this message a prenotice, now you know it's gone |
24 | |
25 | ... one more win for eudev. Sigh. |
Subject | Author |
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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 <ssuominen@g.o> |