From: Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel install target and firmware
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 18:47:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOdo=SzGihJCv_7n_kEiSrAvwYgVNYCJaOkaA2CWpPXgOt+S1w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160828165445.21717.06DDFFDA@matica.foolinux.mooo.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-28 22:47 UTC|newest]
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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 [this message]
2016-08-29 7:25 ` Mick
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