please update linux-firmware to include latest iwlwifi firmware

Yu Watanabe watanabe.yu at gmail.com
Mon Feb 3 00:45:13 UTC 2014


Thank you for updating firmware packages.
I found them at the updates-testing repository.
--
Yu

On 01/31/2014 08:27 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
>> Lo!
>>
>> On 31.01.2014 04:43, Yu Watanabe wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> I do not know what is the criteria to include latest firmware.
>>> I can not find what kind of fixes applied to the latest firmware.
>>> But, I think it might be helpful for many laptop users.
>>
>> FWIW, I also was bitten by "the linux-firmware package in Fedora is too
>> old" a few times in the past year when dealing with brand new hardware.
>> @Josh: How about updating it every time we jump to a new mainline kernel
>> version? Should be safe (as always: famous last words ;-) ) and sounds
>> like a good time&frequency to me
> 
> I try and keep an eye on the git repo for it and do releases whenever
> something important/interesting comes along.  I knew we needed the
> intel firmware update, but I hadn't checked in a while.  I'll get an
> update together later today.  It would be nice if upstream actually
> did releases, but at this point I've given up on that entirely.
> 
> josh
> 


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