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On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 12:52:16 GMT Floyd Anderson wrote: |
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>> On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 12:22:29 +0000 |
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>> Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> >Has something changed in 4.14.7-gentoo sources from its predecessors? |
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>> >I'm getting this on two systems: |
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>> > |
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>> >[snip ...] |
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>> > |
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>> > INSTALL sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-codec-hdmi.ko |
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>> > INSTALL sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-codec.ko |
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>> > INSTALL sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko |
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>> > DEPMOD 4.14.7-gentoo |
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>> > |
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>> >make: *** No rule to make target 'firmware_install'. Stop. |
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>> Yes, there is a change to drop the target rule ‘firmware_install’ [1]. |
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>> I’ve noticed also [2] but in the end it seems the rule is finally |
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>> dropped: |
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>> |
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>> /usr/src/linux-4.12.12-gentoo/scripts/Makefile.fwinst ... exists |
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>> /usr/src/linux-4.14.4-gentoo/scripts/Makefile.fwinst ... no such file |
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>> To check it’s there look for ‘Other generic targets’ in kernel dir: |
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>> sudo make help |
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>> or just grep: |
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>> grep -q 'firmware_install' /usr/src/linux/Makefile |
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>> References: |
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>> - [1] <torvalds/linux@5620a0d> |
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>> - [2] <torvalds/linux@df85b2d> |
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> |
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> You are quite right, there is no firmware_install in the 4.14.7 release. What |
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> does this mean? How are we meant to install firmware now? |
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I believe all firmware has been removed from the kernel sources. |
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You should install sys-kernel/linux-firmware, or grab just the files |
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you need from the git repo. |
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https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git |
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