From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: RFC: install linux-firmware with kernel sources (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite: Firmware cleanup, part #1)
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:05:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1360508715.26312.8.camel@belkin4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130210174634.77631769@sf>
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El dom, 10-02-2013 a las 17:46 +0300, Sergei Trofimovich escribió:
[...]
> The source of confusion was non-working device by default.
> Maybe 'IUSE=+firmware; RDEPEND="firmware? ( sys-kernel/linux-firmware )"'
> for virtual/linux-sources would help user experience a bit.
>
> Sometimes firmware loader does not even write fw file
> it expects to be present on FS in dmesg (like certain broadcom drivers)
> thus it's nontrivial for user to figure out needed package to be installed.
>
> Thanks!
>
I agree as I have also needed to google and search in forums to get
proper firmware installed in the past in some machines :/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-10 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-10 8:10 [gentoo-dev] Lastrite: Firmware cleanup, part #1 Samuli Suominen
2013-02-10 12:59 ` Samuli Suominen
2013-02-10 14:46 ` RFC: install linux-firmware with kernel sources (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite: Firmware cleanup, part #1) Sergei Trofimovich
2013-02-10 15:05 ` Pacho Ramos [this message]
2013-02-10 16:41 ` Maxim Kammerer
2013-02-10 21:06 ` Bruno
2013-02-10 22:49 ` Alec Warner
2013-02-12 19:39 ` Christopher Head
2013-02-12 20:43 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: install linux-firmware with kernel sources (was " Duncan
2013-02-12 23:03 ` Michael Weber
2013-02-13 10:31 ` RFC: install linux-firmware with kernel sources (was Re: [gentoo-dev] " Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-02-10 16:49 ` Dirkjan Ochtman
2013-02-10 16:53 ` Maxim Kammerer
2013-02-10 16:54 ` Fabio Erculiani
2013-02-10 19:43 ` Dirkjan Ochtman
2013-02-12 19:38 ` Christopher Head
2013-02-12 19:43 ` Fabio Erculiani
2013-02-12 19:47 ` Pacho Ramos
2013-02-12 20:00 ` Fabio Erculiani
2013-02-12 20:51 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: install linux-firmware with kernel sources (was " Duncan
2013-02-12 22:30 ` Christopher Head
2013-02-16 6:14 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-02-16 15:29 ` Maxim Kammerer
2013-02-17 5:08 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-02-17 10:26 ` Pacho Ramos
2013-02-17 16:39 ` Maxim Kammerer
2013-02-17 16:54 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-02-17 16:55 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-02-10 20:44 ` RFC: install linux-firmware with kernel sources (was Re: [gentoo-dev] " Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-02-13 13:38 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-02-13 14:45 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-13 14:50 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-02-13 14:53 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-13 17:33 ` Peter Stuge
2013-02-13 17:35 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-13 17:50 ` Peter Stuge
2013-02-13 19:12 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-02-14 6:37 ` Graham Murray
2013-02-14 7:26 ` Michael Weber
2013-02-14 9:32 ` Samuli Suominen
2013-02-10 15:55 ` [gentoo-dev] Lastrite: Firmware cleanup, part #1 Maxim Kammerer
2013-02-10 20:41 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-02-10 21:45 ` Maxim Kammerer
2013-02-10 23:12 ` Douglas Freed
2013-02-11 0:15 ` Maxim Kammerer
2013-02-10 23:52 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-02-11 0:18 ` Maxim Kammerer
2013-02-11 0:42 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-02-13 13:39 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-02-13 13:39 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-02-13 13:51 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-13 14:54 ` Alec Warner
2013-02-14 22:29 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-02-10 16:20 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-02-13 13:08 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2013-02-14 22:27 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-02-14 22:39 ` Samuli Suominen
2013-02-16 6:08 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-02-16 13:52 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-16 19:18 ` Alec Warner
2013-02-16 19:28 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-02-16 19:31 ` Peter Stuge
2013-02-16 21:01 ` Markos Chandras
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