Am 15.10.2012 21:43, schrieb Bill Nottingham: > Kevin Fenzi (kevin@xxxxxxxxx) said: >>> 122659574 kernel >>> 117821428 glibc-common >>> 35623360 linux-firmware >>> 14233540 coreutils >>> 13845828 glibc >> >> I wonder... could we make linux-firmware optional? >> >> I would expect many virt env's don't need any firmware to work... >> (but of course I could be wrong). > > "It depends". It includes firmware for wired NICs as well as other things, > so it depends on what hardware your virtual environment is deciding to > emulate surely, it depends but the hard dependency is a little too much install it as default at fedora setup is fine so such wired NICs are supported but as example on a VMware platfrom these days you are using vmxnet3 and vmw_pvscsi what means that all virtual hardware is supported from the upstream kernel
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