hotplug firmware location

Lawrence Bowie thesource at ldb-jab.org
Tue Dec 21 14:27:11 UTC 2004


Ah... understood .... Where is /lib/firmware indicated in the
software?

Thanks,

LDB

Dan Williams wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 21:52 -0500, Lawrence Bowie wrote:
>  
>
>>I thought the firmware hotplug location was
>>
>>    /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/
>>    
>>
>
>This is no longer the firmware location because /usr is not guaranteed
>to be mounted early in bootup, and therefore you're not guaranteed to
>have firmware for your network card, for example, before you've mounted
>your networked /usr share.  Which is a problem.  Make sure everything is
>in /lib/firmware, which is the correct location.
>
>Dan
>
>  
>




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