Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757047Ab0GMQhH (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:37:07 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f46.google.com ([209.85.215.46]:51759 "EHLO mail-ew0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751532Ab0GMQhF convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:37:05 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=rFfXRQK3P3Du7Rp3OequcHudufqJB/hba9UDdlYUhrHG67dTTr48z3ldcnJowZXUNG CztX0QkHuEG4SrqyvlmTP0A9wGmvaghMBZQ7ezi9JoynZ33H9nWtxAngnqzDKUaiplmN MyL/aH8kXrQbcJwJF379PnXaHW+hMViKWjRjg= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1279037435.9846.17.camel@localhost> References: <1279037435.9846.17.camel@localhost> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:37:01 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 2.6.35-rc5 seems hangs at "[drm] Loading REDWOOD Microcode" From: Alex Deucher To: Thomas Meyer Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1869 Lines: 46 On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Thomas Meyer wrote: > Hi. > > I gave 2.6.35 a try and the last message I see before the boot process > seems to hang is something like: > "[drm] Loading REDWOOD Microcode" > > I seem to have the microcode installed: > $ ll /lib/firmware/radeon/RED* > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 5504 ?9. Apr 01:53 /lib/firmware/radeon/REDWOOD_me.bin > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 4480 ?9. Apr 01:53 /lib/firmware/radeon/REDWOOD_pfp.bin > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 3072 ?9. Apr 01:53 /lib/firmware/radeon/REDWOOD_rlc.bin > > I also did check these sides for a newer version: > http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonBuildHowTo#TroubleshootingExtraFirmwareforR600.2BAC8-R700.2BAC8-Evergreen > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=summary > http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/radeon_ucode/ > > But all versions seem to be from April 8. > > Booting with option "nomodeset" boots up the kernel correctly, but then > the Fedora initram disk program dracut fails to open my luks devices > (sda2+sda3) for some reason (I think I get a timeout and the message: > "no root device found" appears). Booting without the options "quiet" and > "rhgb" and with option "nomodeset" reveals in the kernel log that the > disk and partitons sda1,2,3 are found by the kernel. I don't know what's > going on here. Help appreciated! > > with kind regards > thomas > > PS: > I did put Alex Deucher in CC as he was the last person to change the > file "drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/evergreen.c" > > The microcode needs to be included in your initrd otherwise the driver can't find it when it loads. Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/