PROBLEM: [drm:r600_do_init_cp] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!

[Jerome Glisse]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Treeve Jelbert <treeve at scarlet.be> wrote:
> On Monday 23 April 2012 12:18:55 Michel Dänzer wrote:
>> On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 11:18 +0200, Treeve Jelbert wrote:
>> > Linux-3.3.3
>> >
>> > $ dmesg|grep drm
>> > [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
>> > [drm] radeon defaulting to userspace modesetting.
>> > [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010).
>> > [drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query.
>> > [drm] Initialized radeon 1.33.0 20080528 for 0000:02:00.0 on minor 0
>> > [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
>> > [drm] Loading RV730 CP Microcode
>> > [drm:r600_do_init_cp] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!
>>
>> Does disabling CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL in .config help?
>
> no change
>
> $ grep FIRM .config
> # CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD is not set
> # CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL is not set
> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE=""
> CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=y
> CONFIG_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP=y
> # CONFIG_GOOGLE_FIRMWARE is not set
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Does booting with "radeon.modeset=0 3" and then as root:
modprobe radeon modeset=1
works ?

If so then it's initrd issue

Jerome