https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107168
Bug ID: 107168 Summary: Allow to load firmware during run-time (after initialization) Product: DRI Version: DRI git Hardware: Other OS: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: medium Component: DRM/Radeon Assignee: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Reporter: pmenzel+bugs.freedesktop@molgen.mpg.de
Building the radeon driver into the Linux kernel, that means not as a module, *without* an initrd image, the firmware is not loaded.
The firmware is present on the filesystem in `/lib/firmware/`, but it has not been mounted yet.
The firmware can be added using `EXTRA_FIRMWARE`, but that makes it difficult if the Linux kernel should be shared between different systems using different hardware generations.
(The best solution would be to not require firmware at all.)
It’d be great if the driver supported to load firmware after the initialization phase.