building a new kernel, and firmware

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, poma wrote:

> 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

  ah, thank you, i've updated the fedora wiki page to remove
references to building the firmware package.

rday

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