Skip to content

kconfig check: check for FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER

Luca Weiss requested to merge fw_load_user_helper into master

The history of the option is follows:

Prior to kernel version 3.7, the kernel had no capability of finding firmware itself so it had to call out to userspace to find the firmware for it. This changed with kernel 3.7 where the kernel gained "direct loading support" and where the userspace helper was only called as a fallback. In kernel 3.9 this functionality was put behind the kconfig option FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER which is what this patch checks to be enabled.

Without this option, the udev rule present in postmarketos-base won't be notified that firmware needs to be loaded and as such can't call firmwareload.sh which loads firmware from /lib/firmware/postmarketos.

Merge request reports