From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel install target and firmware
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 08:25:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5046491.5O9SgD2OWb@dell_xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOdo=SzGihJCv_7n_kEiSrAvwYgVNYCJaOkaA2CWpPXgOt+S1w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sunday 28 Aug 2016 18:47:07 Tom H wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Ian Zimmerman <itz@primate.net> wrote:
> > It seems that without extra tweaking, running "make modules_install" in
> > a built gentoo-sources tree always results in the Linux supplied
> > firmware being reinstalled into /lib64/firmware. This is different from
> > debian and definitely not my preferred way; I like to keep the firmware
> > stable unless there is a tangible reason to update it.
> >
> > So, what is the extra tweak I need to apply to change this behavior? Is
> > there a kernel menuconfig option for this?
>
> Try INSTALL_FW_PATH=/lib/firmware/kern_ver
It would make sense that firmware installation takes place in a kernel specific
directory like /lib/modules/<kernel version> does and also removed with a
distclean option, so we don't have to clean after ourselves. Any reason this
is not so?
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Regards,
Mick
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2016-08-28 17:02 [gentoo-user] Kernel install target and firmware Ian Zimmerman
2016-08-28 22:47 ` Tom H
2016-08-29 7:25 ` Mick [this message]
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