[Bug 80331] [BISECTED]Radeon driver broken in kernel 3.12.15 onwards for ATI Radeon HD4770 Card

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Tue Jul 29 10:23:12 PDT 2014


https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80331

--- Comment #7 from Colin <colin.bruce at ctalk.co.uk> ---
(In reply to Alex Deucher from comment #6)
> (In reply to Colin from comment #5)
> > (In reply to Alex Deucher from comment #4)
> > > If the driver is built into the kernel, you need to built the firmware into
> > > the kernel as well.
> > 
> > I am just using the standard build system e.g. make bzImage. As I said if I
> > remove the patch I mentioned in the original post everything works fine. If
> > the patch is applied it doesn't work. I don't know if that has anything to
> > do with building the firmware.
> 
> The firmware still fails to load, it just fails later and the driver does
> not fail to load because of it.

Oh. I hadn't realised. Anyway, with the patch removed the card supports XV in X
windows and with the patch installed it doesn't. If the firmware always fails
to load what does it do?

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