Bug#561348: closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (Bug#558023: fixed in firmware-nonfree 0.22)

[Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>]

On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 13:34 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 14:20 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 12:57 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 11:38 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > > > However it looks like the bug is still there. I regenerated the initrd,
> > > > made sure that it contains the right firmware files, but at boot radeon
> > > > still complains:
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > Why is radeon being loaded so early?  The problem is that the firmware
> > > loader (provided by udev) is not available at this point.
> > 
> > Well, I loaded it early to have a framebuffer console early.
> > It's strange that initramfs goes to great length to put all the firmware
> > files into the initrd if the firmware loader doesn't work.
> 
> It does, once udev has started.  I suggest you file a bug against
> initramfs-tools if you think firmware loading should work earlier.

Ah ok, I misunderstood your mail.
I'll report a bug against initramfs-tools.

Thanks Ben,

	Xav