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Clad in Sky
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 Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2018 9:51 am Post subject: Help with firmware loading in 4.18.5 |
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Hi,
the wiki article about firmware loading seems to be a bit outdated. It says there I need this config:
| Code: | Device Drivers --->
Generic Driver Options --->
-*- Userspace firmware loading support
[*] Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary
(/lib/firmware) Firmware blobs root directory |
In 4.18.5 (and probably earlier versions, too) the options are:
| Code: | Device Drivers --->
Generic Driver Options --->
-*- Userspace firmware loading support
() Build named firmware blobs into the kernel binary
(/lib/firmware) Firmware blobs root directory |
Where () takes the name of the firmware file in question. But I don't really know the name.
I'm using an Nvidia gtx1060 and I installed the linux-firmware package.
There's actually some firmware in /lib/firmware/nvidia/gp106 - only there are several subdirectories, each of which contain several .bin files.
How do I configure my kernel correctly?
Thanks for your input.
Using the proprietary nvidia-drivers. Maybe that takes care of the firmware all by itself? Just a thought.
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2018 11:48 am Post subject: |
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Clad in Sky,
Firmware blobs root directory concated with each path fragment in the firmware list describes the files to load.
The file list is a space separated list. Do not use a leading / here unless you really mean it.
| Code: | │ │ -*- Firmware loading facility │ │
│ │ (amdgpu/polaris11_ce.bin amdgpu/polaris11_ce_2.bin amdgpu/polaris11_mc.bin am│ │
│ │ (/lib/firmware/) Firmware blobs root directory │ │
│ │ [ ] Enable the firmware sysfs fallback mechanism |
My firmware is at /lib/firmware/amdgpu/polaris11_ce.bin, /lib/firmware/amdgpu/polaris11_ce_2.bin and so on.
Leaving Firmware blobs root directory empty and providing full pathnames in the list of firmware files should work too.
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Clad in Sky
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| Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2018 7:10 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the info.
Since I followed the Nvidia wiki guide, I seem to be all set, then.
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