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On Tue, March 13, 2012 9:45 pm, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> I've also found one |
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> situation where I need to take one extra step to run without udev. I |
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> have a laptop with a Radeon GPU that requires a binary blob for the |
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> video driver. emerging radeon-ucode downloads a whole slew of binary |
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> blobs, to support umpteen different models. If I leave all the binary |
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> blobs in the library directory, the kernwl needs udev to figure out |
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> which one of the many binary blobs to load. If I remove all the other |
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> binary blobs, and leave only the correct one in the library directory, |
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> it loads automatically. |
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Wouldn't a good solution be to have the ebuild modified to only install |
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those binary blobs you actually need? |
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Eg. similar to how apache or sane modules are configured? |
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