Quoting Rodrigo Vivi (2018-01-29 21:40:27) > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 08:45:24PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote: > > Quoting Srivatsa, Anusha (2018-01-29 20:17:25) > > > > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > > > >From: Vivi, Rodrigo > > > >Sent: Friday, January 26, 2018 10:22 AM > > > >To: intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > >Cc: Vivi, Rodrigo <rodrigo.vivi@xxxxxxxxx>; Srivatsa, Anusha > > > ><anusha.srivatsa@xxxxxxxxx> > > > >Subject: [PATCH] drm/i915: Remove Firmware URL. > > > > > > > >The right place for the firmware is linux-firmware.git. > > > >We shouldn't advertise anywhere to users to start downloading firmware blobs > > > >manually. > > > > > > > >Also it seems that 01.org page is outdated and it doesn't contain DMC 1.27 for > > > >SKL, for instance. Probably other firmware releases are missing there, while they > > > >are part of the official linux-firmware.git. > > > > Then get them onto 01.org. If Intel cannot be relied on to provide their > > own firmwares, the alternative is to stop shipping blobs entirely. > > I understand your point. But the goal is to have only one place and this place > is linux-firmware.git. If a user sees this message, then linux-firmware has failed them... > The web-page will still have the information about the firmware and > a text explaining the linux-firmware repository. > > But what I want is to avoid any users with the impression they > have to manually go there and install anything. Since we tie firmware to kernel version, I think it behooves us to carry a complete history; and redundancy is never a bad idea. Fwiw, the local storage should be a linux-firmware.git branch so that files are tracked universally. -Chris _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
