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On 07/02/20 20:39, Matt Turner wrote: |
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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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> |
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In that case, and in truth this is what I do in practice, I just simply |
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download the relevant firmware files Direct from git, and side-step all |
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this package nonsense :) |
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