[Bug 60741] When using the 3.10 kernel, System boot is blocked on the udev stage because of loading the radeon DRM module

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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60741

--- Comment #3 from Eastern Heart <zxd123314 at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Alex Deucher from comment #2)
> I'm guessing you are getting a stall due to waiting for the firmware fetch
> to time out.  Make sure your initrd contains the firmware if you are using
> one or if you are building the driver into the kernel, make sure the
> firmware is built in as well.  If you wait for a few minutes the the
> firmware fetch will eventually timeout and the kernel will continue.  You
> can also try backlisting radeon and then booting to a non-X runlevel and
> then try loading radeon manually.  At that point the filesystem will be
> available and the driver will be able to access the firmware.

My /lib is (ofcourse) on the root filesystem. And the whole DRM support is a
module. I waited for at least 10 minutes. I know the pain of waiting firmware,
but it cannot cost 10 minutes.(I used to have no firmware so I know the time,
It's at most 1 min).

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