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On 02/10/2013 11:54 AM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: |
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> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> I agree as I have also needed to google and search in forums to get |
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>>> proper firmware installed in the past in some machines :/ |
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>> |
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>> +1 from me; I've had a few machines break on kernel upgrades because I |
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>> didn't have the proper firmware installed (I guess older kernel |
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>> sources came with the firmware?). |
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> This is another problem, namely dependency level problem. |
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> I don't see how having kernel sources ebuilds providing /lib/firmware |
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> would fix any of the listed issues without causing other "side |
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> effects". |
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> For starters, if kernel sources provide /lib/firmware, how do you deal |
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> with file collisions? |
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The number of collisions has been reduced drastically in the last ~year, |
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I don't believe there are actually any left now. I think the kernel has |
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almost entirely stopped shipping firmware. It may be time to make |
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linux-firmware an RDEPEND of *-sources |
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- -Zero |
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