[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode

[Mike Pagano]

# 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

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode

[Mike Pagano]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 12:10:38PM -0500, Mike Pagano 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

Bug #708622



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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode

[Matt Turner]

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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode

[Ulrich Mueller]

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>>>>> 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.

But yeah, either we should keep them all or remove them all.

Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode

[Matt Turner]

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 :)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode

[Michael 'veremitz' Everitt]

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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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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode

[Matt Turner]

On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 12:03 PM Michael 'veremitz' Everitt
<gentoo@veremit.xyz> wrote:
>
> 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 ...

Even that's not true. Just look at the git repo.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode

[Alexander Tsoy]

7 февраля 2020 г. 22:50:13 GMT+03:00, Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> пишет:
>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 :)

USE=savedconfig is very inconvinient, especially for a package that can introduce new firmware files for the same hardware. Adding support for masks would improve that a bit. 

--
Alexander Tsoy

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode

[Mike Gilbert]

On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 2:39 PM 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.
>
> But yeah, either we should keep them all or remove them all.

It looks like several different people maintain the individual
iwlXXXX-ucode packages.

Removing them all would require some consensus among those maintainers.

Keeping them all means forcing maintainers to work on stuff they don't
care about, or will result in stuff getting dropped to
maintainer-needed.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode

[Michael 'veremitz' Everitt]

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On 07/02/20 20:39, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 12:03 PM Michael 'veremitz' Everitt
> <gentoo@veremit.xyz> wrote:
>> 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 ...
> Even that's not true. Just look at the git repo.
>
In that case, and in truth this is what I do in practice, I just simply
download the relevant firmware files Direct from git, and side-step all
this package nonsense :)


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode

[Matt Turner]

On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 12:44 PM Alexander Tsoy <alexander@tsoy.me> wrote:
>
> 7 февраля 2020 г. 22:50:13 GMT+03:00, Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> пишет:
> >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 :)
>
> USE=savedconfig is very inconvinient, especially for a package that can introduce new firmware files for the same hardware. Adding support for masks would improve that a bit.

Agreed. Mask/wildcard support would solve that problem well.