Bug 757655 - mkinitrd: udev now requires firmware in /usr/lib/firmware
Summary: mkinitrd: udev now requires firmware in /usr/lib/firmware
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
: 753942 758202 (view as bug list)
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 12.2
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version: Factory
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Critical (vote)
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Assignee: Jeff Mahoney
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Reported: 2012-04-17 23:03 UTC by Jeff Mahoney
Modified: 2012-07-29 20:31 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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[PATCH] mkinitrd: Firmware in /usr/lib/firmware (1.20 KB, patch)
2012-04-17 23:58 UTC, Jeff Mahoney 		Details | Diff
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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. ***