linux-kernel - Re: acr: failed to load firmware with Kernel 5.6. Kernel 5.5 works just fine.

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Date:   Fri, 3 Apr 2020 19:20:48 +0200
From:   Zeno Davatz <zdavatz@...il.com>
To:     Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@...m.mit.edu>
Cc:     Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        nouveau <nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: acr: failed to load firmware with Kernel 5.6. Kernel 5.5 works
 just fine.

On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 6:59 PM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@...m.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Ben -- probably the ACR changes in 5.6 don't fall back nicely anymore
> when there's no firmware? The load shouldn't be failed, just GR
> disabled...
>
> Zeno -- if you grab linux-firmware, it should be all better. Not sure
> if you're missing it on purpose or by accident.

Thank you, Ilia

I will try that on my Gentoo/Funtoo machine now. So far linux-firmware
was not needed with Kernel 5.5, so it was not installed on my machine.

[ please CC me ]

Best
Zeno