[Bug 43138] Radeon HD5450 fails to load cedar firmware ?

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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43138





--- Comment #9 from Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net>  2012-04-24 08:24:23 ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> that leaves the pretty unlikely bug in the loader and/or some weird local
> hardware problem - no idea how much different the cards in the cedar family
> really are from each other?

It's got nothing to do with the hardware. request_firmware() reports sizes of
the files in question which do not match the sizes of the files on your system
(which match the expected sizes). So something goes wrong between your
filesystem and request_firmware(). The most likely explanation seeming a
problem when copying the files into the initrd, or maybe
/lib/udev/firmware.agent in the initrd doing something wrong or something like
that.

What does

 gunzip -c /boot/initrd.img-$(uname -r) | cpio -tv | grep CEDAR

say?

(In reply to comment #8)
> Boot with "radeon.modeset=0 3"

The '3' won't have any visible effect on a Debian system, you'd need 'single'
for single user mode.

> If it works it means debian initrd doesn't include the firmware.

It does include something (otherwise the failure would be different), but
possibly not the correct files.

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