On 05/19/2010 05:39 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
As a followup to a discussion on [arch-general] in the Linux 2.6.34
thread ([1] and others), I think we should do the following:
- Create a linux-firmware package from the linux-firmware.git tree.
- Make that package conflict and replace all other firmware that it
obsoletes:
replaces=('kernel26-firmware'
'ar9170-fw'
'iwlwifi-1000-ucode'
'iwlwifi-3945-ucode'
'iwlwifi-4965-ucode'
'iwlwifi-5000-ucode'
'iwlwifi-5150-ucode'
'iwlwifi-6000-ucode'
'rt2870usb-fw'
'rt2x00-rt61-fw'
'rt2x00-rt71w-fw')
All other firmware packages contain only files that are not part of
linux-firmware.
- Remove the firmware from the kernel26 PKGBUILD, only use the
linux-firmware package instead
I'm putting a package with the according conflicts/replaces to testing.
Please comment, test it thoroughly and give feedback.
[1] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2010-May/013329.html
Maybe this is a little premature, or altogether irrelevant, but now that we're
reorganizing all of the firmware what can we expect in terms of its inclusion in
the initcpio?
Is there a direct relationship between modules and firmware so that just what's
needed can be loaded automatically? Is it too much to just take it all with a
'firmware' hook?
