Bug#575501: initramfs-tools: radeon.ko not included into initrd
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 01:25:38PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 01:04:40PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:31:32PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > The second one has an
> > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M56GL [Mobility FireGL V5200]
> > > and is not working properly. I understand that radeon.ko needs to be
> > > in the initrd for early loading to work, and this doesn't happen, and
> > > I am at a loss to explain why this doesn happen.
> > Loading drivers which needs firmware this early is currently broken.
> I see. So there is no KMS for radeon at this time?
There is. The radeon module is loaded by udev later from the real
system.
> Is there a bug report about that for reference?
#575241
> > > For what it's worth, I didn't find any configuration that explicitly
> > > causes the i915.ko to be included in the initramfs on the Intel
> > > system,
> > It is not included.
> < /boot/inird.img-2.6.33-zgws1 gunzip | cpio -i leads to a directory
> tree which includes a file lib/modules/*/i915.ko. This I clearly
> remember.
| $ gunzip -c initrd.img-2.6.32-4-686-bigmem | cpio -tv | grep -a i915
| -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23 Jan 7 23:51 etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf
| 12920 blocks
Bastian
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