Jon Masters wrote: > Josh Boyer wrote: >> On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 16:16 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: >>> Apparently the qlogic drivers don't have any firmware included in FC7, >>> so nobody can actually use a qlogic adapter. Should we be patching the >>> kernel like in FC6 or do we need a separate package? Or maybe the >>> firmware goes in the kernel package? >>> >>> Peter says the support for Anaconda / mkinitrd to load the firmware >>> is already written, so we could do it either way. >> >> If it fits these guidelines: >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#BinaryFirmware > > Yeah. I saw those. But the problem is that this might be needed in the > bootpath. We /probably/ don't want the kernel package depending on a > billion of these other packages for the moment - do we? Wouldn't it just > be easier to have the firmware in that package for now, since it used to > be in the kernel anyway? Eventually we need to fix this differently. Hey, mkinitrd is required too and it's not part of the kernel package. After thinking about it, I vote for a separate package if it doesn't cause too much pain. _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
