On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 19:50 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 19:17 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:10:45PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
do you want something ala:
config EXTRA_FIRMWARE string default "" append "FOO" if BAR append "FOZ" if BAZ
or maybe a new type "list" which would behave as a comma/space separated value.
config EXTRA_FIRMWARE list "bla" append "FOO" if BAR append "FOZ" if BAZ
Yeah, actually Kyle's note (http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/29/289) makes much more sense for linux and the whole firmware in the kernel deal. So it looks like the drivers should be taught to wait for userspace to appear instead of Kconfig helping them build-in firmware. And then we should go ahead and remove CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE completely...
That would suck, suppose this radeon thing is the only console you've got (ppc64/sparc64 don't have text mode iirc) and userspace doesn't come up?
Same is true for NICs and netconsole of course. Not being able to stick blobs into the kernel image would so suck.
Silently building a kernel without one and then getting stuck on boot, only to figure out after much pain that you need EXTRA_FIRMWARE and the more pain to figure out what blob to stick in is beyond crazy.