From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from tx2ehsobe004.messaging.microsoft.com ([65.55.88.14]:50753 "EHLO TX2EHSOBE008.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754454Ab1H2RR7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:17:59 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:17:50 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: Kernel almost hangs when CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=y Message-ID: <20110829171750.GD2025@gere.osrc.amd.com> References: <20110829141612.GB2025@gere.osrc.amd.com> <1790021880.1347470.1314632844694.JavaMail.root@zmail02.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com> <20110829155501.GC2025@gere.osrc.amd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Arnaud Lacombe Cc: David Airlie , Peter Zijlstra , Michel =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= , linux-kernel , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Pavel Ivanov , Alex Deucher , Dave Airlie , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org 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... Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris.