[Dev] Making the radeon kernel module work again

André Silva emulatorman at riseup.net
Wed Aug 5 18:52:46 GMT 2015


On 08/05/2015 01:54 PM, Jason Self wrote:
> You've heard of the patch from Denis [0] to make the radeon kernel module 
> work again in free distros and not just fall over and die when the 
> proprietary firmware isn't there? I'm writing to suggest applying it, if 
> you aren't already. I also changed the patch to one that can be easily 
> applied [1], since his patch was against blobbed Linux. I've added this to 
> my APT repository for Linux-libre, starting with version 4.1.4 and already 
> have reports of success from people on IRC.
> 
> [0] http://www.fsfla.org/pipermail/linux-libre/2015-July/003080.html
> [1] http://www.fsfla.org/pipermail/linux-libre/2015-August/003098.html
> 

ok, i'll add that patch in the next revision of our kernels, thanks so
much for let know us about it :)

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