From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E82A1138ABB for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:55:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 46F27E0525; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:55:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 59CF2E04EB for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:55:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.39.140.245] (unknown [82.113.121.245]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: chithanh) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9C06B33DB92 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:55:20 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <51210B60.5050006@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:54:56 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2jDrS1UaGFuaCBDaHJpc3RvcGhlciBOZ3V54buFbg==?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0 SeaMonkey/2.15.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: install linux-firmware with kernel sources (was Re: Lastrite: Firmware cleanup, part #1) References: <5117560B.3090709@gentoo.org> <20130210174634.77631769@sf> <1360508715.26312.8.camel@belkin4> <20130212113814.598ac903@ritchie.cs.ubc.ca> <20130212143040.3b1bd00d@ritchie.cs.ubc.ca> <511F23B5.7060905@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: e67e5c58-27cd-4f7c-bdaa-cf06c0456dfa X-Archives-Hash: c3e21d9a7ece9470ef62d509e4814e9f Maxim Kammerer schrieb: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina > wrote: >>>> Kernel sources providing /lib/firmware itself shouldn't be a problem >>>> either, as that's just a dir, which many packages may own. The >>>> individual firmware files would be a problem, but the USE=firmware >>>> RDEPEND solution should solve that. >> What is everyone's opinion of adding a USE=firmware option to pull in >> PDEPEND="linux-firmware" in linux-2.eclass? > Not exactly an opinion, but a couple of notes: > > 1. Kernel's "make modules_install" triggers "make firmware_install", > which installs a strict subset of linux-firmware (for enabled modules > — e.g., "3com/typhoon.bin"). A way to work around that is to supply > INSTALL_FW_PATH=... to make. Most if not all such conflicts can be avoided by USE="deblob" Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn