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A comment [[User:Larry|Larry]] 13:52, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
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KERNEL Enable support for Linux firmware
Device Drivers --->
 Generic Driver Options --->
 -*- Userspace firmware loading support
 [*] Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary
 (/lib/firmware) Firmware blobs root directory

Is not present in menuconfig on 4.19.0:

Device Drivers --->
 Generic Driver Options --->
│ [*] Support for uevent helper │ │ 
 │ │ (/sbin/hotplug) path to uevent helper │ │ 
 │ │ -*- Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev │ │ 
 │ │ [*] Automount devtmpfs at /dev, after the kernel mounted the rootfs │ │ 
 │ │ [*] Select only drivers that don't need compile-time external firmware │ │ 
 │ │ [*] Disable drivers features which enable custom firmware building │ │ 
 │ │ Firmware loader ---> │ │ 
 │ │ [ ] Driver Core verbose debug messages │ │ 
 │ │ [*] Managed device resources verbose debug messages │ │ 
 │ │ [ ] Test driver remove calls during probe (UNSTABLE) │ │ 
 │ │ < > Build kernel module to test asynchronous driver probing │ │ 
 │ │ [ ] Enable verbose DMA_FENCE_TRACE messages 

-- Kreyren (talk) 14:40, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Article updated. --Grknight (talk) 19:38, 7 November 2018 (UTC)