[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] New core package: linux-firmware

[Matthew Monaco]

On 05/19/2010 06:40 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 20.05.2010 00:30, schrieb Matthew Monaco:
>> Maybe this is a little premature, or altogether irrelevant, but now that
>> we're reorganizing all of the firmware what can we expect in terms of
>> its inclusion in the initcpio?
>>
>> Is there a direct relationship between modules and firmware so that just
>> what's needed can be loaded automatically? Is it too much to just take
>> it all with a 'firmware' hook?
>>
>
> Required firmware is added to the initramfs automatically - at least the
> firmware files that are listed in 'modinfo' of the module in question.
> Beyond that, there is nothing we can do.
>

Does anyone know what the point of that radeon hook in the AUR is then? All it 
does is add the radeon module and include the "radeon" firmware files - which I 
see are listed by 'modinfo radeon' anyway.