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 _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
