Bug#805151: [PATCH] Install GPU firmware

2015-11-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2015-11-15 at 21:46 +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > > > > On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Ben Hutchings > wrote: > > On Sun, 2015-11-15 at 14:45 +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > > > So, if I understand correctly, the drm driver is initialized when > > the > > > initramfs runs, > >

Bug#805151: [PATCH] Install GPU firmware

2015-11-15 Thread Michael Stapelberg
On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2015-11-15 at 14:45 +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > > So, if I understand correctly, the drm driver is initialized when the > > initramfs runs, > [...] > > How is that going to happen if it's not in the initramfs? > Hm. I must be

Bug#805151: [PATCH] Install GPU firmware

2015-11-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2015-11-15 at 14:45 +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > So, if I understand correctly, the drm driver is initialized when the > initramfs runs, [...] How is that going to happen if it's not in the initramfs? I see that you're using a custom kernel; do you have i915 built-in? Unfortunately

Bug#805151: [PATCH] Install GPU firmware

2015-11-15 Thread Michael Stapelberg
So, if I understand correctly, the drm driver is initialized when the initramfs runs, and the i915 drm loads the skylake firmware blob. Without the firmware being in the initramfs, I got an error message during early boot: Nov 13 11:30:43 midna kernel: [ 10.747038] i915 :00:02.0: Direct firm

Bug#805151: [PATCH] Install GPU firmware

2015-11-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2015-11-15 at 13:00 +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Ben Hutchings > wrote: > > Control: tag -1 moreinfo > > > > On Sun, 2015-11-15 at 11:49 +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > > > Package: initramfs-tools > > > Version: 0.120 > > > Severity: norma

Bug#805151: [PATCH] Install GPU firmware

2015-11-15 Thread Michael Stapelberg
On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Control: tag -1 moreinfo > > On Sun, 2015-11-15 at 11:49 +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > > Package: initramfs-tools > > Version: 0.120 > > Severity: normal > > Tags: patch > > > > Please apply the attached patch, see its commit message f

Bug#805151: [PATCH] Install GPU firmware

2015-11-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Sun, 2015-11-15 at 11:49 +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Package: initramfs-tools > Version: 0.120 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > Please apply the attached patch, see its commit message for details. [...] This is not about adding firmware, it is adding module

Bug#805151: [PATCH] Install GPU firmware

2015-11-15 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.120 Severity: normal Tags: patch Please apply the attached patch, see its commit message for details. Thanks! -- Package-specific info: -- initramfs sizes -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17M 2015-10-29 09:02 /boot/initrd.img-4.0.0-2-amd64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22M 201