https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34033
Michel Dänzer michel@daenzer.net changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |NOTABUG
--- Comment #3 from Michel Dänzer michel@daenzer.net 2011-02-08 07:15:48 PST --- The firmware is needed at radeon driver initialization time. When the driver is built into the kernel, this happens before the firmware can be loaded from userspace, so it needs to be built into the kernel as well.