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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@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 10:14:00
Message-Id: 5461E1DE.5090203@gentoo.org
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 Mike Frysinger
1 On 11/11/14 01:41, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On 01 Sep 2014 06:30, Samuli Suominen wrote:
3 >> On 01/09/14 03:37, Patrick Lauer wrote:
4 >>>> Consider this message a prenotice, now you know it's gone
5 >>> ... one more win for eudev. Sigh.
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 > echo /bin/busybox mdev > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
13 > -mike
14
15 I will continue to maintain eudev 1.10.x which has userland firmware
16 loading support. Versions 2.0 and above removed it.
17
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19 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
20 Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
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