Am 19.05.2010 16:19, schrieb Dan McGee:
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Am 19.05.2010 10:56, schrieb Evangelos Foutras:
Also did a diff [1] between the file lists of kernel26-firmware-2.6.34-1 and linux-firmware-git-20100519-1. It shows that ralink firmware has indeed been added to the linux-firmware repository, which should resolve FS#19519 [2].
I did that too and noticed the same. It would also replace all intel ucode packages, and some more I don't know about. However, it is considerably bigger than kernel26-firmware (2MB vs. 12MB).
How often does it need to be updated? We now (needlessly?) have the firmware package track the actual kernel package so it ends up getting re-downloaded a lot more often than probably necessary, so the above package, while large, would probably be updated less anyway (and would be an 'any' package?).
Everytime someone complains about a firmware file missing. Seriously, look at the commit log, it only had 23 commits this year: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=summary I guess we would upgrade it at most once a month.