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On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 12:03 PM Michael 'veremitz' Everitt |
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<gentoo@×××××××.xyz> wrote: |
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> On 07/02/20 19:50, Matt Turner wrote: |
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> > On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 11:39 AM Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> >>>>>>> On Fri, 07 Feb 2020, Matt Turner wrote: |
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> >>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 9:10 AM Mike Pagano <mpagano@g.o> wrote: |
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> >>>> # Mike Pagano <mpagano@g.o> (2020-02-07) |
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> >>>> # The standalone ebuild for this driver is made |
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> >>>> # unnecessary as it is included in the package: |
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> >>>> # sys-kernel/linux-firmware |
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> >>>> sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode |
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> >>> How about all the others as well? |
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> >>> sys-firmware/iwl1000-ucode |
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> >>> sys-firmware/iwl3160-7260-bt-ucode |
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> >>> sys-firmware/iwl3160-ucode |
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> >>> sys-firmware/iwl6005-ucode |
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> >>> sys-firmware/iwl6030-ucode |
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> >>> sys-firmware/iwl7260-ucode |
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> >>> sys-firmware/iwl8000-ucode |
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> >> I had asked the same question back in November, but an argument against |
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> >> it was that sys-kernel/linux-firmware is quite a monster. In the default |
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> >> configuration, its installation footprint is 515 MiB. |
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> > Oh yeah. The thread where the person arguing for keeping them didn't |
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> > know about USE=savedconfig :) |
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> > |
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> You still have to install the full 515MiB before you can apply savedconfig, |
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> unless you already know the list of firmwares included, and create the file |
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> in advance. For some systems (esp. storage constrained) that's not a very |
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> good option ... |
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Even that's not true. Just look at the git repo. |
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