>-----Original Message----- >From: Chris Wilson [mailto:chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] >Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 1:06 AM >To: Vivi, Rodrigo <rodrigo.vivi@xxxxxxxxx> >Cc: Srivatsa, Anusha <anusha.srivatsa@xxxxxxxxx>; intel- >gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Remove Firmware URL. > >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Also it seems that 01.org page is outdated and it doesn't contain 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. Rodrigo, instead of removing the URL of 01.org, it will be a good idea to add the drm-firmware git repo which is Intel's repo of all firmwares. I understand users should not be encouraged to manually download the firmware. But maybe pointing out the location where we maintain all firmwares would be good. Anusha >-Chris _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
