On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Nezmer <arch@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > FYI, I had this discussion with the radeon guys months ago in IRC. > Apparently, kernel guys (maybe Linus) decided to not add new firmware > files to the kernel tree. That's why we have all those firmware packages > for in-tree modules. Depending on what direction the kernel guys have taken, there is another option worth considering. If firmware is now only added to a separate repository, namely linux-firmware.git [1], it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to switch our kernel firmware package to that [2]. Fedora has done something similar with their linux-firmware [3] package. Anyway, I'm not really sure what the best course of action is here. The above option does seem like a more general and future-proof solution to this kind of issues. As a bonus, it also covers several Intel wireless cards, thus making their respective -ucode packages [4] in [core] redundant. @Devs: The final decision is yours. :) [1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=summary [2] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/dwmw2/firmware/ [3] http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/linux-firmware/ [4] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=-ucode
