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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