From: Michael 'veremitz' Everitt <gentoo@veremit.xyz>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 20:03:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21468e00-3eee-eb43-671f-abb813acf0fd@veremit.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEdQ38HLtiZ52fYd3FdLxPKTGa8RySkoGaaDEsExp68ajJOEcw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 07/02/20 19:50, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 11:39 AM Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Fri, 07 Feb 2020, Matt Turner wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 9:10 AM Mike Pagano <mpagano@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>> # Mike Pagano <mpagano@gentoo.org> (2020-02-07)
>>>> # The standalone ebuild for this driver is made
>>>> # unnecessary as it is included in the package:
>>>> # sys-kernel/linux-firmware
>>>> sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode
>>> How about all the others as well?
>>> sys-firmware/iwl1000-ucode
>>> sys-firmware/iwl3160-7260-bt-ucode
>>> sys-firmware/iwl3160-ucode
>>> sys-firmware/iwl6005-ucode
>>> sys-firmware/iwl6030-ucode
>>> sys-firmware/iwl7260-ucode
>>> sys-firmware/iwl8000-ucode
>> I had asked the same question back in November, but an argument against
>> it was that sys-kernel/linux-firmware is quite a monster. In the default
>> configuration, its installation footprint is 515 MiB.
> Oh yeah. The thread where the person arguing for keeping them didn't
> know about USE=savedconfig :)
>
You still have to install the full 515MiB before you can apply savedconfig,
unless you already know the list of firmwares included, and create the file
in advance. For some systems (esp. storage constrained) that's not a very
good option ...
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-07 17:10 [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode Mike Pagano
2020-02-07 17:13 ` Mike Pagano
2020-02-07 17:55 ` Matt Turner
2020-02-07 19:39 ` Ulrich Mueller
2020-02-07 19:50 ` Matt Turner
2020-02-07 20:03 ` Michael 'veremitz' Everitt [this message]
2020-02-07 20:39 ` Matt Turner
2020-02-07 20:48 ` Michael 'veremitz' Everitt
2020-02-07 20:43 ` Alexander Tsoy
2020-02-07 21:43 ` Matt Turner
2020-02-07 20:47 ` Mike Gilbert
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