Am 19.05.2010 00:47, schrieb Thomas Bächler:
Am 18.05.2010 21:49, schrieb Nezmer:
FYI, I had this discussion with the radeon guys months ago in IRC. Apparently, kernel guys (maybe Linus) decided to not add new firmware files to the kernel tree. That's why we have all those firmware packages for in-tree modules.
So, they ship firmware files with the kernel, but only SOME firmware files? And arbitrarily, others are not being shipped? In particular, old ones are shipped, and new ones aren't? This annoys me already - but before I start any discussion, I want to have a source for that. It might be time to annoy the lkml with this.
Okay, this is confusing. It seems that linux-firmware is a superset of the firmware in kernel26 and includes lots of files, including the intel iwlwifi firmware and the ralink firmware. This file lacks some conflicts/provides, but you should be able to install it instead of kernel26-firmware. http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/linux-firmware-git-20100519-1-any.pkg.tar.x... Let me know what you think. Also, there have been some reports about missing ralink firmware files, those might be in here as well.