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

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

--- Comment #14 from Colin <colin.bruce at ctalk.co.uk> ---
(In reply to Alex Deucher from comment #13)
> You need to compile the firmware into your kernel when you build the driver
> into the kernel.  In both of your static builds, the firmware fails to load:
> 
> static-with-patch:
> [    0.263616] r600_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/RV730_pfp.bin"
> [    0.263668] [drm:rv770_init] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!
> [    0.263721] radeon 0000:01:00.0: Fatal error during GPU init
> 
> static-without-patch:
> [    0.269288] [drm] Loading RV730 Microcode
> [    0.269354] r600_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/RV730_pfp.bin"
> [    0.269403] [drm:rv770_startup] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!
> 
> You need to specify CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE in your kernel configuration and
> point it to the firmware files required by the driver.  E.g.,
> 
> CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y
> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware"
> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="radeon/RV730_me.bin radeon/RV730_pfp.bin
> radeon/R700_rlc.bin RV740_smc.bin"

Thanks I'll give it a go when I home from work tonight. I am sure that will be
the solution. Strange thing is that even with the firmware not loaded the card
works fine when the patch is not present.

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