[pacman-dev] kernel26-firmware and third-party kernels

[Aaron Griffin]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Ray Rashif <schivmeister at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all
>
> Would it be OK (as in KISS) to shove in a custom kernel's equivalent
> firmware into /lib/firmware/$(uname -r)? By looking at the
> /lib/udev/firmware.sh script it's one of the default look-up paths. But if I
> (and subsequent third-party packagers) start doing this, it will break the
> consistency as kernel26's firmware are in that dir. The only resolution here
> is that kernel26 uses /lib/firmware/$(uname -r) as well.
>
> I'm pretty sure that the blobs are hardware-dependent and not software, but
> from looking at the kernel26 buildscripts so far it appears they are being
> bumped for every minor revision update. Why is this being done? If there is
> indeed no problem whatsoever and any kernel can use firmware of any version,
> then this case can be dismissed :)

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