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130401 Mick wrote: |
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> On Monday 01 Apr 2013 02:54:08 Philip Webb wrote: |
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>> I've spent a lot of today trying to fix a glitch in starting 'dhcpcd' |
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>> after upgrading to udev-200 ; I outlined it in a msg to gentoo-dev . |
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> Thanks for sharing this Philip. |
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> I was surprised to see that firmware for NICs |
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> are meant to be added in this kernel config option. |
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> I thought that this config option was only for the video card firmware. |
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> # cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep EXTRA_FIRMWARE |
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> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="radeon/R600_rlc.bin radeon/R700_rlc.bin" |
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> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware/" |
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> In my /lib/firmware I have: |
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> # ls -la /lib/firmware/ |
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> total 1448 |
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> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Sep 14 2012 . |
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> drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 12288 Mar 31 09:26 .. |
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> drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Feb 4 2012 b43 |
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 14 2012 intel-ucode |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1451687 Sep 14 2012 microcode.dat |
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> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 31 09:58 radeon |
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> and from dmesg I can see that all of these get loaded |
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> *without* being defined in the CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE= ... |
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> On this box in any case I do not have sys-kernel/linux-firmware installed, |
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> but have installed x11-drivers/radeon-ucode for the video card |
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> and net-wireless/b43-fwcutter for the wireless NIC. |
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> Are you saying that the correct way to go about this |
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> is to uninstall these packages |
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> and instead define the firmware in the kernel in CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE= ? |
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> PS. I'm currently running kernel-3.7.10-gentoo. |
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No, if your way works, keep doing it. |
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I installed 'linux-firmware' long ago, but may not have used it since. |
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I was faced with the peculiar problem I described, |
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ie after updating to udev-200 & following the news-item advice |
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the 1st attempt at 'dhcpcd' stalled, but a 2nd attempt always worked. |
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Not wanting to face this delay every time I reboot, |
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I investigated with the results described. |
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'dhcpcd' is now noticeably quicker than with <= udev-197 |
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& the new kernel naming system seems a small general improvement, |
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so my advice wb to update to udev-200 & then solve any other problems. |
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I assume the underlying problem for me was |
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that the kernel took time trying to find the firmware |
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& meanwhile the Dhcpcd process went to sleep or froze. |
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Now that the firmware is compiled into the kernel, there's no delay. |
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SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb |
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