building a new kernel, and firmware

[poma]

On 11.02.2014 23:41, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   last question about "building kernel" wiki page, i promise. here:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel#Build_the_New_Kernel
> 
> one reads:
> 
> "To build with firmware included, do:
> 
> rpmbuild -bb --with baseonly --with firmware --without debuginfo \
> --target=`uname -m` kernel.spec "
> 
>   i've examined the kernel.spec file and i see nothing about firmware
> there. further down that page, one reads:
> 
> "su -c "rpm -ivh
> $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/<arch>/kernel-<version>.<arch>.rpm \
>        $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/<arch>/kernel-firmware-<version>.<arch>.rpm \
>        $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/<arch>/kernel-headers-<version>.<arch>.rpm \
>        $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/<arch>/kernel-devel-<version>.<arch>.rpm"
> 
> but i just did a build "--with firmware" and i see no generated
> "kernel-firmware" rpm. did that *used* to exist? can someone clarify
> this?
> 
>   just FYI, i'm writing a wiki page that i want to use in an upcoming
> fedora admin course, and i want to make sure that the recipe i give is
> absolutely accurate; hence, my obsession with technical pedantry.
> 
> rday
> 

"Drop the kernel-firmware subpackage from the spec file"
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/kernel.git/commit/kernel.spec?id=eb0d563f579fc30110899eae827bc069b728e5cc


poma