[Bug 40952] R100 firmware no longer loads

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40952

--- Comment #10 from Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2011-08-25 22:43:53 --- On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:25 PM, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:

Interestingly, the RS780 managed to load its firmware (also all compiled into the kernel) even w/o this patch.

Does the R600+ driver perhaps load firmware only at open time?

The problem with the r100 driver is that it loads firmware very early on, at driver init time. Generally it's *much* better if you request the firmware when the device is actually opened, rather than when the driver loads.

Linus