From: Graham Murray <graham@gmurray.org.uk>
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: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 06:37:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bobncsen.fsf@einstein.gmurray.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130213175015.15304.qmail@stuge.se> (Peter Stuge's message of "Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:50:15 +0100")
Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se> writes:
> Kernel -sources USE is a handy way to install linux-firmware
> wholesale, but AIUI the standalone firmware packages would
> be removed too, effectively making the USE flag non-optional, and
> removing the possibility of having managed firmware packages.
> (People would have to download single firmware files on their own.)
What would perhaps be nice would be to patch 'make firmware_install'
to have it call a utility which scans .config and fetches and installs any
firmware required for a configured device.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-14 6:37 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
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 [this message]
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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