linux-kernel - Re: Regression: firmware: Simplify directory creation + b43 = fails to build

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Date:	Tue, 08 Jul 2014 14:09:28 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@...glemail.com>,
	Ronald <ronald645@...il.com>
CC:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Regression: firmware: Simplify directory creation + b43 = fails
 to build

On 2014-07-07 21:02, Torsten Kaiser wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Ronald <ronald645@...il.com> wrote:
>> From my .config
>>
>>  ==> cat /usr/src/config | grep -i b43
>> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="b43/ucode5.fw b43/b0g0initvals5.fw
>> b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw b43/pcm5.fw"
>> ... snip ...
> 
> That might be rather later, but I seem to have the same problem:
>   CHK     kernel/config_data.h
>   MK_FW   firmware/amd-ucode/microcode_amd.bin.gen.S
> /bin/sh: firmware/amd-ucode/microcode_amd.bin.gen.S: No such file or directory
> [...]
> The directory firmware/amd-ucode does not exist in the kernel source
> tree, but my .config seems to need it:
> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="radeon/R700_rlc.bin radeon/RV710_uvd.bin
> radeon/RV730_smc.bin amd-ucode/microcode_amd.bin"
> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware"
> 
> Just doing a "mkdir firmware/amd-ucode" lets the build continue and I
> get a working 3.16 kernel.
> 
> With 3.15 and earlier I never had a problem with this, but 3.16-rc4
> just failed with above message.
> 
> Do you need my full .config or any other information about my system?

That's not needed, I can reproduce the failure now as well.

Michal
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