On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 10:22 AM Petr Pisar <ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > V Sat, Mar 06, 2021 at 06:30:53PM -0500, Matthew Miller napsal(a): > > On Sat, Mar 06, 2021 at 07:13:07PM -0000, Reon Beon via devel wrote: > > > People that want more security, uefi if they have only bios supported, or > > > boot speed. Also no other distros have it packaged yet so also people that > > > want to work on a upstream version. > > > > But it doesn't run _in_ the distro, and is deeply tied to the hardware. What > > would be the advantage for the end user in having it packaged by the > > distribution? > > > Fedora already distributes plenty of firmware: > > # dnf -q repoquery '*-firmware' |wc -l > 38 Most of those firmware are for attached hardware and not the device firmware, the exceptions here are basically U-Boot and the firmware for the Raspberry Pi, and frankly if I didn't have to deal with that I would be extremely happy. > However, <https://fwupd.org/> repository might be more suitable than Fedora > repository. Yes, given that hardware initialisation and early boot firmware is special on a number of levels I think that is by far the best location for it. New releases of fwupdmgr also have the concept for firmware streams so you can switch between different variants of firmware for the same device which caters nicely for this exact use case. Peter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
