On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:33 AM, Shea Levy <s...@shealevy.com> wrote:
> > FWIW (and probably that's not much), the NixOS[0] distro doesn't currently > use /lib/firmware. There is no /lib directory by default on NixOS, instead > we create a new symlink tree representing the current system on each system > change and symlink /run/current-system to that tree. We currently build > udev/systemd with the --with-firmware-path=/run/current-system/firmware > configuration-time option, but we also patch module-init-tools and kmod to > respect the $MODULE_DIR env var and may do the same for firmware in the > future. The way we do things has significant advantages (or at least we like > to think so), but we already have exceptions for /bin/sh and /usr/bin/env, > so I suspect we'll probably add in /lib/firmware if this functionality moves > into the kernel. The kernel parameter for customizing firmware search path will be added, so you use can pass your search path from kernel command too. Thanks, -- Ming Lei -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/