On 01/24/2010 06:18 PM, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:26:10 +0100 > drago01 <drago01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Jonathan Dieter <jdieter@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> Is there some reason we don't have a iwl5150-firmware package? Or >>> that /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5150-2.ucode isn't included in >>> iwl5000-firmware? >>> >>> Just asking because I was helping someone on #fedora get their Intel >>> 5150ABN working, and it seems that this missing firmware was the >>> reason it wasn't. The firmware is available from >>> http://intellinuxwireless.org/?p=iwlwifi&n=downloads. >> >> Seems like indeed nobody packaged it yet. >> >> Maybe John wants to add it to the iwl5000-firmware package so you >> should ask him (cc'ed) first before actually submitting a package. > > why wouldn't this be part of the linux-firmware general "all firmware" > package instead? * Because the kitchen-sink approach to packaging isn't a good one * Because at some point, in a utopian future, we'd like to be able to replace the binary firmware chunks with free-licensed bits * Because we don't want to force everyone to update everytime one piece of firmware updates Take your pick. ~spot -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
