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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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  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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