On Sam, 2011-08-27 at 00:20 -0400, Pavel Ivanov wrote: > > I observe very strange behavior dependent on value of > CONFIG_DRM_RADEON parameter. When it's set to m everything works very > good, no problem. When I set it to y I see kernel hang during boot. Or > I should better say it "almost hangs" because during last boot attempt > I accidentally waited a little bit longer and saw that after more than > a minute waiting system continued to boot. Dmesg after "hang" shows > these messages: > > [ 8.542639] [drm] Loading CEDAR Microcode > [ 69.161605] r600_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/CEDAR_pfp.bin" > [ 69.161670] [drm:evergreen_startup] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware! > > While during normal boot > > [ 9.898870] [drm] Loading CEDAR Microcode > [ 9.908425] radeon 0000:05:00.0: WB enabled With CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=y, the microcode is needed before it can be loaded from userspace, so it needs to be built into the kernel as well. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
