On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 11:56:36AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 23.02.2007 11:35, Axel Thimm wrote: > >On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:51:18AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >>On 23.02.2007 10:32, Axel Thimm wrote: > >>>[...] > >>>I think what you want is to quickly select firmware packages. Maybe > >>>that's better done with having firmwares always prefix the package > >>>name instead with "firmware-"? > >>Sound like a nice idea to me. > >>BTW, do we have a definite description of what a firmware is > >does that fit? > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmware > > Well, sure, but writing a single sentence like > > >>(and what not). Something like "A firmware is uploaded to the flash > >>of a hardware device and executed there *and not* by the operating > >>system on the host cpu" > > might be helpful without much work afaics. Especially the part "not > executed by the operating system on the host cpu" -- that part it not > that obvious in the wikipedia article, but important for us afaics. Just to re-interate that... see fwupdate.com for Dell system BIOS RPMs. Distributable, not modifiable, executed on the host CPU. Name : system_bios_Precision_370 Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : a08 Vendor: Dell Release : 15.1 Build Date: Mon 12 Feb 2007 10:34:36 AM CST Install Date: Sat 24 Feb 2007 07:35:41 PM CST Build Host: mdomsch-pe2850 Group : System Environment/Base Source RPM: system_bios_Precision_370-a08-15.1.src.rpm Size : 459333 License: Proprietary Signature : DSA/SHA1, Tue 13 Feb 2007 12:39:37 PM CST, Key ID e74433e25e3d7775 Summary : BIOS upgrade package for System: Precision_370 Description : This package contains BIOS update version a08 for System Precision_370 One can argue Fedora shouldn't be in the business of distributing these, and I'd agree. (related to another thread on FAB, there shouldn't be a problem with a hardware distributor adding a package to their installs that provides a yum repo file pointing at their tree of firmware though.) I personally like using the license tag to describe rules such as "proprietary, not modifiable, redistributable" rather than overloading the name. In this case, we named them system_bios*, pci_firmware*, and other names that are descriptive. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
