Firstly a minor typo in the third paragraph of the About Firmware
section of Chapter 3 in the SVN version of the BLFS book. The line
reads “firmware files can be accessed vau wget”. That probably should
be ”firmware files can be accessed via wget”.
Next a comment/question about Firmware for ATI video chips. The method
shown in this chapter shows making the radeon driver a module but when I
do this then boot the resulting system two things happen. First, no
Penguins! Second, and more importantly, the login prompt does not appear
until I hit the enter key. The system seems to work properly otherwise,
meaning I have an active framebuffer device that I can write to and see
a response. When the firmware is built into the kernel everything
functions as expected.
The nuts and bolts of my system:
LFS-systemd 7.7
AMD A10-7850K APU
Kaveri [Radeon R7 200 Series]
Oland XT [Radeon HD 8670 / R7 250]
The question is, Since this behavior is not a show stopper is it a
problem I need to be concerned about, or is it just the way things want
to work?
Any thoughts/comments/suggestions are welcome.
Skip H
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