-*- Userspace firmware loading support

[samuel]

waw... who would have thought... atheros hardware working better than intel
Auke, it seems like you still have some work to do there @ intel ;)


On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Marco van der Grient
<mwgrient69 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 10/19/2013 08:31 PM, Auke Kok wrote:
>
>> On 10/18/2013 10:12 AM, Marco van der Grient wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I would like to disable this function in the kernel:
>>>
>>> Device drivers > Generic driver options >
>>> -*- Userspace firmware loading support
>>>
>>> But as you can see it is "hard coded". The reason for disabling this
>>> feature is that the wlan0 device is taking 2 minutes to load.
>>> Hope someone has a idea!
>>>
>>
>> Don't disable this, instead, make your wifi driver a module and disable
>> automatic loading at startup.
>>
>> Other things to check: newer driver, newer firmware, replace hardware...
>>
> I tried other hardware (atheros wifi, instead of intel advanced 6300) and
> that works. The only thing is that I have to flash my bios because of
> hardware restrictions (lenovo x201).
> Not shure about the options: patching the kernel or flashing the bios. Or
> an ugly usb device...
> Newer firmware did not help.
> Patching the kernel did help. I put the patch file in
> /var/lib/lunar/moonbase/**zlocal/_patches/linux/"my patch". And it is
> called after the configuration.
> About the patch:
>
> "The systemd commit below can delay firmware loading by multiple
> minutes if CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=**y.  Unfortunately no one
> noticed that the systemd-udev change would break new kernels as well
> as old kernels.
> Since the kernel apparently can't count on reasonable userspace
> support, turn this thing off by default."
> [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/**archives/systemd-devel/2013-**
> August/012538.html<http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-August/012538.html>
> cheers, Marco
>
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