From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S7o4C-0006ZM-8P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:16:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 85AB8E08C2; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:16:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.167]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA237E082B for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:15:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.137] (helo=smtp6.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7o2t-0004tj-8Q for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:15:15 +0100 Received: from 5ed027d6.cm-7-1a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.208.39.214] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp6.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7o2s-00084k-Rw for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:15:15 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4CA82B72 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:15:53 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id MD5iziKLXbsC for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:15:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from www.antarean.org (net.antarean.org [10.10.11.5]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 212BE19E7 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:15:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from 62.132.204.72 (SquirrelMail authenticated user joost) by www.antarean.org with HTTP; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:15:52 +0100 Message-ID: <28075bf582f03525b692aa5b7df33387.squirrel@www.antarean.org> In-Reply-To: <20120313204535.GB2430@waltdnes.org> References: <20111115062115.GA3262@waltdnes.org> <20111121104724.GC7461@waltdnes.org> <20111201194544.GD4455@waltdnes.org> <20120217234045.GA25390@waltdnes.org> <20120311090912.GA23850@waltdnes.org> <20120311213448.GB25554@waltdnes.org> <20120313204535.GB2430@waltdnes.org> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:15:52 +0100 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 6 From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.21 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Ziggo-spambar: / X-Ziggo-spamscore: -0.9 X-Ziggo-spamreport: BAYES_00=-1.9,KHOP_DYNAMIC=0.001,RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.982,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No X-Archives-Salt: 89148e55-e58d-4136-8a61-9f415aeee04e X-Archives-Hash: 2bea7bc7d57666ec0f4f05db562fc136 On Tue, March 13, 2012 9:45 pm, Walter Dnes wrote: > I've also found one > situation where I need to take one extra step to run without udev. I > have a laptop with a Radeon GPU that requires a binary blob for the > video driver. emerging radeon-ucode downloads a whole slew of binary > blobs, to support umpteen different models. If I leave all the binary > blobs in the library directory, the kernwl needs udev to figure out > which one of the many binary blobs to load. If I remove all the other > binary blobs, and leave only the correct one in the library directory, > it loads automatically. Wouldn't a good solution be to have the ebuild modified to only install those binary blobs you actually need? Eg. similar to how apache or sane modules are configured? -- Joost