Re: [PATCH 2/2] modules/firmware: add a new option to denote a firmware group to choose one.

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On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 12:50:50PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> From: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This adds two tags that will go into the module info.
> 
> The first denotes a group of firmwares, when that tag is present all
> MODULE_FIRMWARE lines between the tags will be ignored by new versions of
> dracut.
> 
> The second makes an explicitly ordered group of firmwares to search for
> inside a group setting. New dracut will pick the first available firmware
> from this to put in the initramfs.
> 
> Old dracut will just ignore these tags and fallback to installing all
> the firmwares.
> 
> The corresponding dracut code it at:
> https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/pull/2309
> 
> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-modules@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx>

Lucas, did this end up working for you as well?

  Luis



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