https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35472
--- Comment #11 from Sergey Kondakov virtuousfox@gmail.com 2011-06-26 07:08:09 --- i tried 3.0.0-rc4 today. glitch is still present but i tried changing kernel config from: CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="radeon/R600_rlc.bin radeon/R700_rlc.bin" CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware"
to: CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE=""
got an error: [ 0.538980] [drm] Loading RV770 Microcode [ 60.896109] [drm:rv770_startup] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!
but KMS launched with no grid and X started up too!
there is no acceleration however and mesa runs from llvmpipe instead of r600g.