Firmware

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 11:04 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Been playing with how I'd make the kernel package deal with the new
> 'make firmware_install' stuff. Currently looks something like this.

The patches have now hit Linus' tree, so I've committed the specfile
parts too. As soon as we update to 2.6.26-git1, we'll get a separate
kernel-firmware package which is required by the main kernel binary
package.

> I suspect that (for now) we should make the kernel binary packages
> depend on kernel-firmware?

Done. There are some firmwares which are under GPL, so even the "Free
Software or nothing!" folks can have _some_ form of kernel-firmware
package. I don't think there's a problem with requiring it.

I'll leave it to Alex to submit for review a kernel-firmware-libre
package which Provides: kernel-firmware and which actually builds the
various firmware files from source :)

> Should the package own the /lib/firmware/ directory?

Not done.

> Ideally we'll want kernel-firmware to be a .noarch.rpm, but we can't get
> that until we start to build it from a separate srpm.

Done.

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dwmw2