Bug 757655

Summary:	mkinitrd: udev now requires firmware in /usr/lib/firmware
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 12.2	Reporter:	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	auxsvr, forgotten_Hf5jTZonIN, mmarek
Version:	Factory
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Found By:	Development	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	[PATCH] mkinitrd: Firmware in /usr/lib/firmware

Description Jeff Mahoney 2012-04-17 23:03:49 UTC

As of udev 182, the firmware loader now looks in /usr/lib/firmware instead of /lib/firmware.

On the file system itself, this has been worked around in the udev package by making /usr/lib/firmware a symbolic link to /lib/firmware.

In the initramfs, the firmware is still placed in /lib/firmware but there's no symbolic link, so firmware won't load. Radeon and other GPU drivers hate that.

Patch to follow.

Comment 1 Jeff Mahoney 2012-04-17 23:58:59 UTC

Created attachment 486551 [details]
[PATCH] mkinitrd: Firmware in /usr/lib/firmware

 With udev 182, firmware is expected to be in /usr/lib/firmware.

 This patch adds the ability for it to look in /usr/lib/firmware, with
 /lib/firmware as a fallback.

 We use /path/to/firmware/ (trailing slash) so we follow the top
 link with the name we used instead of the link target.

Comment 2 Jeff Mahoney 2012-04-17 23:59:26 UTC

Submitted to Base:System as SR 114297.

Comment 3 Bernhard Wiedemann 2012-04-19 09:00:08 UTC

This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (757655) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/114556 Factory / mkinitrd

Comment 4 Bin Li 2012-04-20 09:08:20 UTC

Looks the  bnc#758202 and bnc#753942 cause by this one?

Comment 5 Bin Li 2012-04-20 10:08:22 UTC

*** Bug 758202 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Jeff Mahoney 2012-04-22 05:11:35 UTC

In Factory, closing as FIXED.

Comment 7 Bin Li 2012-04-23 03:57:00 UTC

*** Bug 753942 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***