https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40952
--- Comment #2 from James Cloos cloos@jhcloos.com 2011-08-18 00:08:09 --- Sorry. I thought that I had written that the firmare is compiled in.
Or at least it is supposed to be:
:; zgrep FIRMWARE /proc/config.gz # CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD is not set ➤ CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="" CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=y CONFIG_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP=y # CONFIG_GOOGLE_FIRMWARE is not set