On Tue, March 13, 2012 9:45 pm, Walter Dnes wrote: > I've also found one > situation where I need to take one extra step to run without udev. I > have a laptop with a Radeon GPU that requires a binary blob for the > video driver. emerging radeon-ucode downloads a whole slew of binary > blobs, to support umpteen different models. If I leave all the binary > blobs in the library directory, the kernwl needs udev to figure out > which one of the many binary blobs to load. If I remove all the other > binary blobs, and leave only the correct one in the library directory, > it loads automatically.
Wouldn't a good solution be to have the ebuild modified to only install those binary blobs you actually need? Eg. similar to how apache or sane modules are configured? -- Joost
