On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 02:32:58PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 13:48 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 11:05:24AM -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> > > What I am trying to achieve with firmware-tools is that your BIOS and
> > > other firmware (RAID cards, network, etc) behave from an administration
> > > point of view just like the rest of the software in your system. It
> > 
> > But the rest of my system doesn't behave like that at all. If I don't have
> > the right RPM installed for the video driver for a new graphics card,
> > running yum update doesn't probe my system and magically add it to the list
> > of packages.
> > 
> > Maybe it should, but it doesn't.
> 
> to be fair - that would be cool. :)

This is the next plugin I am working on. :)

Kernel modules are now tagged with the pci ids that they support. I have
a proof of concept for this and am working on making it a plugin.

The point is that I want BIOS and firmware to work the same way.
--
Michael
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