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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/Kconfig | 25 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig index 2f6614c9a229..bdc87907d6a1 100644 --- a/drivers/base/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig @@ -91,22 +91,23 @@ config FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL depends on FW_LOADER default y help - The kernel source tree includes a number of firmware 'blobs' - that are used by various drivers. The recommended way to - use these is to run "make firmware_install", which, after - converting ihex files to binary, copies all of the needed - binary files in firmware/ to /lib/firmware/ on your system so - that they can be loaded by userspace helpers on request. + Various drivers in the kernel source tree may require firmware, + which is generally available in your distribution's linux-firmware + package. + + The linux-firmware package should install firmware into + /lib/firmware/ on your system, so they can be loaded by userspace + helpers on request. Enabling this option will build each required firmware blob - into the kernel directly, where request_firmware() will find - them without having to call out to userspace. This may be - useful if your root file system requires a device that uses - such firmware and do not wish to use an initrd. + specified by EXTRA_FIRMWARE into the kernel directly, where + request_firmware() will find them without having to call out to + userspace. This may be useful if your root file system requires a + device that uses such firmware and you do not wish to use an + initrd. This single option controls the inclusion of firmware for - every driver that uses request_firmware() and ships its - firmware in the kernel source tree, which avoids a + every driver that uses request_firmware(), which avoids a proliferation of 'Include firmware for xxx device' options. Say 'N' and let firmware be loaded from userspace. |