Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] New core package: linux-firmware

2010-05-19 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 05/19/2010 07:38 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 20.05.2010 00:49, schrieb Matthew Monaco: Does anyone know what the point of that radeon hook in the AUR is then? All it does is add the radeon module and include the "radeon" firmware files - which I see are listed by 'modinfo radeon' anyway.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] New core package: linux-firmware

2010-05-19 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 20.05.2010 00:49, schrieb Matthew Monaco: > Does anyone know what the point of that radeon hook in the AUR is then? > All it does is add the radeon module and include the "radeon" firmware > files - which I see are listed by 'modinfo radeon' anyway. > It has no point at all. signature.asc D

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] New core package: linux-firmware

2010-05-19 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 05/19/2010 06:40 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 20.05.2010 00:30, schrieb Matthew Monaco: Maybe this is a little premature, or altogether irrelevant, but now that we're reorganizing all of the firmware what can we expect in terms of its inclusion in the initcpio? Is there a direct relationship

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] New core package: linux-firmware

2010-05-19 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 20.05.2010 00:30, schrieb Matthew Monaco: > Maybe this is a little premature, or altogether irrelevant, but now that > we're reorganizing all of the firmware what can we expect in terms of > its inclusion in the initcpio? > > Is there a direct relationship between modules and firmware so that j

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] New core package: linux-firmware

2010-05-19 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 05/19/2010 05:39 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: As a followup to a discussion on [arch-general] in the Linux 2.6.34 thread ([1] and others), I think we should do the following: - Create a linux-firmware package from the linux-firmware.git tree. - Make that package conflict and replace all other fi