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From: Patrick Lauer <patrick@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: 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.

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