On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 12:52:16 GMT Floyd Anderson wrote: > On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 12:22:29 +0000 > > Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Has something changed in 4.14.7-gentoo sources from its predecessors? > > > >I'm getting this on two systems: > > > >[snip ...] > > > > INSTALL sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-codec-hdmi.ko > > INSTALL sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-codec.ko > > INSTALL sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko > > DEPMOD 4.14.7-gentoo > > > >make: *** No rule to make target 'firmware_install'. Stop. > > Yes, there is a change to drop the target rule ‘firmware_install’ [1]. > I’ve noticed also [2] but in the end it seems the rule is finally > dropped: > > /usr/src/linux-4.12.12-gentoo/scripts/Makefile.fwinst ... exists > /usr/src/linux-4.14.4-gentoo/scripts/Makefile.fwinst ... no such file > > To check it’s there look for ‘Other generic targets’ in kernel dir: > > sudo make help > > or just grep: > > grep -q 'firmware_install' /usr/src/linux/Makefile > > > References: > - [1] <torvalds/linux@5620a0d> > - [2] <torvalds/linux@df85b2d>
You are quite right, there is no firmware_install in the 4.14.7 release. What does this mean? How are we meant to install firmware now? -- Regards, Mick
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