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? _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
