Summary: | x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati should suggest or pull in sys-firmware/radeon-ucode | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan> |
Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Gentoo X packagers <x11> |
Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | gent_bz, nikoli, orzel, pacho, steffen |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
See Also: | https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457082 | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Thomas Raschbacher
2011-02-23 09:31:48 UTC
There are some chips (like the RV350 in my case) that don't need an external firmware image, because the firmware is already delivered with the kernel. Maybe we need a finer-grained VIDEO_CARDS, or a USE flag (as you suggested)? The firmware is needed by the kernel (for KMS on newer chipsets), not by xf86-video-ati. I suggested in bug 361903 comment 0 to have an optional dependency on the sys-kernel/linux-firmware package, but the response was not positive. I don't mind if xf86-video-ati mentioned/suggested that firmware package if that's the nearest thing related to it. But I don't see a point in extending VIDEO_CARDS or adding USEflags just for that reason. We can fine-grain such a message with what we have now but no more. Putting an einfo or something in the ebuild depending on which drivers are selected is ok I suppose :) *** Bug 440884 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** any update on how this will/should be handled yet? virtual/linux-sources[firmware] now depends on sys-kernel/linux-firmware, so I think no further changes to packages are needed. Enabling the flag by default in the desktop profile might be a good idea. (In reply to Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn from comment #7) > virtual/linux-sources[firmware] now depends on sys-kernel/linux-firmware, so > I think no further changes to packages are needed. > > Enabling the flag by default in the desktop profile might be a good idea. ++ :) It's not xf86-video-ati that requires the firmware. |