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authorXi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>2024-11-14 12:13:00 +0800
committerXi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>2024-11-14 13:07:07 +0800
commit45a8f687eac7318ad743a2bcb6cc60a5eb4d0039 (patch)
tree737cb1b23a3a2442d25e71d5f586c1af2296a12a
parent41dffd5d3161a29d531836fa03d8c7e429838516 (diff)
firmware: Remove fake info about pre-R600 Radeon cards
The paragraph was added in 2015 but R100 to R500 firmware are in linux-firmware.git since 2009 when all radeon firmware blobs were moved from linux.git to linux-firmware.git. Link: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/70967ab9c0c9
-rw-r--r--postlfs/config/firmware.xml14
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/postlfs/config/firmware.xml b/postlfs/config/firmware.xml
index 649dde41ed..c56835cb1c 100644
--- a/postlfs/config/firmware.xml
+++ b/postlfs/config/firmware.xml
@@ -98,9 +98,7 @@
<para>
ATI Radeon and AMDGPU devices all require firmware to be able to use KMS
- (kernel modesetting - the preferred option) as well as for Xorg. For
- old radeon chips (before the R600), the firmware is still in the
- kernel source.
+ (kernel modesetting - the preferred option) as well as for Xorg.
</para>
<para>
@@ -472,15 +470,7 @@ cd initrd</userinput></screen>
<title>Firmware for Video Cards</title>
<sect3 id="ati-video-firmware">
- <title>Firmware for ATI video chips (R600 and later)</title>
-
- <para>
- These instructions do NOT apply to old radeons before the R600
- family. For those, the firmware is in the kernel's <filename
- class='directory'>/lib/firmware/</filename> directory. Nor do they
- apply if you intend to avoid a graphical setup such as Xorg and are
- content to use the default 80x25 display rather than a framebuffer.
- </para>
+ <title>Firmware for ATI Radeon video chips</title>
<para>
Early radeon devices only needed a single 2K blob of firmware. Recent