On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 21:27 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 02:58:08PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 01:42:02PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:35:01AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > > > So the most current version is in the upstream kernel git? > > > > > > kernel guys are currently in the summit so latest 2 patches > > > related to fakeroot didn't yet land in kbuild git and linux-next. > > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kbuild&m=125561337922614&w=2 > > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kbuild&m=125561358622933&w=2 > > > > After applying these two patches to scripts/package/builddeb from > > current upstream kernel git (they don't apply to 2.6.31.4), make > > deb-pkg KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD="fakeroot -u" produces packages (which I > > haven't tested yet). Thanks. > > Is it a feature that the linux-firmware package doesn't have the > upstream kernel version in its name?
Possibly not. > $ make deb-pkg > (...) > dpkg-deb: building package linux-firmware-image' in > ../linux-firmware-image_2.6.31.4.20091026.4_all.deb'. > dpkg-deb: building package linux-image-2.6.31.4-zgws1' in > ../linux-image-2.6.31.4-zgws1_2.6.31.4.20091026.4_i386.deb'. > > I could imagine that, a driver in kernel 2.6.x would need different > firmware than the same driver in kernel 2.6.y, where it would be very > helpful to have multiple firmware packages installed. The linux-firmware repository <git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git> contains multiple versions of some firmware for just this reason. However, Linux source trees do not. > Does the firmware infrastructure cater for this need? udev as shipped in Debian will search in /lib/firmware/$(uname -r) before /lib/firmware. It might make sense for the linux-firmware-image package to install in there instead, though this is likely to waste space with a lot of duplicates. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm always amazed by the number of people who take up solipsism because they heard someone else explain it. - E*Borg on alt.fan.pratchett
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