Bug#805151: [PATCH] Install GPU firmware

[Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>]

On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:

On Sun, 2015-11-15 at 14:45 +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
> So, if I understand correctly, the drm driver is initialized when the
> initramfs runs,
[...]

How is that going to happen if it's not in the initramfs?

Hm. I must be mixing up symptoms, I think. I’ll double-check when I get a chance to reboot.

Would it not in any case be good to have the drm driver + firmware in the initramfs to initialize displays with their correct resolution in early boot already?

 

I see that you're using a custom kernel; do you have i915 built-in?
Unfortunately it's not currently possible to find out which firmware is
wanted by a built-in driver.

The kernel is built with Debian’s config:

$ grep I915 /boot/config-4.3.0

CONFIG_DRM_I915=m

# CONFIG_DRM_I915_PRELIMINARY_HW_SUPPORT is not set

CONFIG_SND_HDA_I915=y

 

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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Best regards,
Michael