Am 18.05.2010 17:26, schrieb Evangelos Foutras:
I see your point. It seems that upstream kernel developers don't wish to ship firmware files, which is... not ideal for downstream (e.g. Arch).
That is weird. Many other firmware files are being shipped with Linux and it would make sense here.
However, these firmware files are needed for R600/R700/Evergreen cards [1], therefore I see two options:
1) radeon_ucode [2] can be brought to [extra] and an announcement added to the front page informing users about this. (The package should also be renamed to radeon-ucode in order for it to be consistent with the rest of the firmware packages.)
This sounds like a good idea. This could even be included in core AND installed on the installation ISO. Andy, this seems like your area, what do you think?
2) Alternately, the radeon firmware files could be included in the kernel26-firmware package.
I don't like that, as the kernel26-firmware package is supposed to ship the firmware files included in the Linux source.
I like the first option better because it keeps things separate.
Agreed.