Talk:Linux firmware

Needs updating
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)

edited the kernel setting from * to / for the directory for kernel firmware blobs Russelld (talk) 10:24, 15 May 2019 (UTC)