Am 19.05.2010 00:47, schrieb Thomas Bächler: > Am 18.05.2010 21:49, schrieb Nezmer: >> FYI, I had this discussion with the radeon guys months ago in IRC. >> Apparently, kernel guys (maybe Linus) decided to not add new firmware >> files to the kernel tree. That's why we have all those firmware packages >> for in-tree modules. > > So, they ship firmware files with the kernel, but only SOME firmware > files? And arbitrarily, others are not being shipped? In particular, old > ones are shipped, and new ones aren't? This annoys me already - but > before I start any discussion, I want to have a source for that. It > might be time to annoy the lkml with this. >
Okay, this is confusing. It seems that linux-firmware is a superset of the firmware in kernel26 and includes lots of files, including the intel iwlwifi firmware and the ralink firmware. This file lacks some conflicts/provides, but you should be able to install it instead of kernel26-firmware. http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/linux-firmware-git-20100519-1-any.pkg.tar.xz Let me know what you think. Also, there have been some reports about missing ralink firmware files, those might be in here as well.
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