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Re: Switching kernel drivers to userland microcode loading, and 'contrib'



On Apr 12, Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> wrote:

>     Marco> On Apr 12, Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net> wrote:
>     >> somthing like request_firmware.  Do we have any packages with
>     >> userland support for this in Debian?
>     Marco> Hotplug does, but this will not help you much if you need
>     Marco> the firmware to boot your system.
> I guess you'll be needing an initrd then.
Yes, large enough to contain a POSIX shell and a few other tools.

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