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



On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 18:45 +0200, Laurent Grawet wrote:
> 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.

You can only build firmware inside the kernel if you also build the
corresponding driver inside the kernel (i.e. not as a module).  Module
loading and firmware loading go hand-in-hand.  Anyway, Debian kernel
packages are not built this way, so this is irrelevant.

> 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.

The version of the Debian-packaged kernel is 2.6.30-1-amd64, not
2.6.30.1-amd64.

Ben.

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