Am 18.05.2010 17:26, schrieb Evangelos Foutras: > I see your point. It seems that upstream kernel developers don't wish to > ship firmware files, which is... not ideal for downstream (e.g. Arch). That is weird. Many other firmware files are being shipped with Linux and it would make sense here. > However, these firmware files are needed for R600/R700/Evergreen cards > [1], therefore I see two options: > > 1) radeon_ucode [2] can be brought to [extra] and an announcement added > to the front page informing users about this. (The package should also > be renamed to radeon-ucode in order for it to be consistent with the > rest of the firmware packages.) This sounds like a good idea. This could even be included in core AND installed on the installation ISO. Andy, this seems like your area, what do you think? > 2) Alternately, the radeon firmware files could be included in the > kernel26-firmware package. I don't like that, as the kernel26-firmware package is supposed to ship the firmware files included in the Linux source. > I like the first option better because it keeps things separate. Agreed.
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