On 02/12/2013 09:43 PM, Duncan wrote: > Christopher Head posted on Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:39:57 -0800 as excerpted: > >> On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:49:03 -0800 Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> >> wrote: >> >>> Most external firmware is not needed to boot. If you need it to boot, >>> you will have to stow it in the initramfs. or the kernel itself ... >> >> For those of us who prefer monolithic kernels, virtually all firmware is >> needed to boot. Even if a network interface doesn't need to be >> operational for boot, the kernel insists that the firmware be available >> right at boot or else it will fail and the interface will never appear. > > I'm a monolithic kernel guy myself, and I simply build-in the firmware I > need (three radeon firmware files, IIRC, used to be tg3 as well until > that mobo died). dito.
> And FWIW, I didn't really know about linux-firmware either, but google > knew when I asked it about the files the kernel errors spit out. =:^) > And I didn't actually install it, either. I simply grabbed the tarball > and extracted the files I needed, placing them where the kernel could > find them. from cross distro source etc. I wonder how that linux-firmware serves it all will handle different versions of one firmware-filename with disjunct sets of supported hardware revisions. Random files in /lib/firmware out of packet manager space it is (form me). -- Michael Weber Gentoo Developer web: https://xmw.de/ mailto: Michael Weber <x...@gentoo.org>
