Bug#533885: Stops booting with message that it cannot load av7110/bootcode.bin

[Laurent Grawet <debian-bugs@grawet.be>]

Package: linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64
Followup-For: Bug #533885

Hello,

Hum, I tried vanilla 2.6.30.1 kernel and got the same problem + multiple
"BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [work_for_cpu:2730]"
These lockups are related to the inability to load av7110/bootcode.bin.
I used make-kpkg to build kernel with firmware compiled INSIDE kernel.
So it looks more like a bug from the av7110 driver.

Then I tried to compile kernel with firmware OUTSIDE kernel. I got the
same error until I decided to do :

    # cp -r /lib/firmware/2.6.30.1-amd64/av7110 /lib/firmware

and it worked (+ no more lockups) !

So it seems there is a problem with av7110 and firmware compiled in +
path problem with firmware outside kernel.

Regards,

Laurent

P.S. It seems the is no firmware at all coming with bpo kernel, that's
why I built it myself !

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.24     Debian configuration management sy
ii  initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.92o      tools for generating an initramfs
ii  module-init-tools             3.4-1      tools for managing Linux kernel mo

linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64 suggests:
ii  grub                       0.97-47lenny2 GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy v
pn  linux-doc-2.6.30           <none>        (no description available)