Talk:Linux firmware

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KERNEL Enable support for Linux firmware

Device Drivers  --->
  Generic Driver Options  --->
    -*- Userspace firmware loading support
    [*]   Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary
    (/lib/firmware) Firmware blobs root directory

Is not present in menuconfig on 4.19.0:

Device Drivers  --->
  Generic Driver Options  --->
│        [*] Support for uevent helper                                                  │ │  
  │ │        (/sbin/hotplug) path to uevent helper                                          │ │  
  │ │        -*- Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev                            │ │  
  │ │        [*]   Automount devtmpfs at /dev, after the kernel mounted the rootfs          │ │  
  │ │        [*] Select only drivers that don't need compile-time external firmware         │ │  
  │ │        [*] Disable drivers features which enable custom firmware building             │ │  
  │ │            Firmware loader  --->                                                      │ │  
  │ │        [ ] Driver Core verbose debug messages                                         │ │  
  │ │        [*] Managed device resources verbose debug messages                            │ │  
  │ │        [ ] Test driver remove calls during probe (UNSTABLE)                           │ │  
  │ │        < > Build kernel module to test asynchronous driver probing                    │ │  
  │ │        [ ] Enable verbose DMA_FENCE_TRACE messages        

-- Kreyren (talk) 14:40, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Article updated. --Grknight (talk) 19:38, 7 November 2018 (UTC)