Qlogic firmware isn't in the FC7 kernel

[Chuck Ebbert]

Jon Masters wrote:
> Josh Boyer wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 16:16 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>>> Apparently the qlogic drivers don't have any firmware included in FC7,
>>> so nobody can actually use a qlogic adapter. Should we be patching the
>>> kernel like in FC6 or do we need a separate package? Or maybe the
>>> firmware goes in the kernel package?
>>>
>>> Peter says the support for Anaconda / mkinitrd to load the firmware
>>> is already written, so we could do it either way.
>>
>> If it fits these guidelines:
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#BinaryFirmware
> 
> Yeah. I saw those. But the problem is that this might be needed in the
> bootpath. We /probably/ don't want the kernel package depending on a
> billion of these other packages for the moment - do we? Wouldn't it just
> be easier to have the firmware in that package for now, since it used to
> be in the kernel anyway? Eventually we need to fix this differently.

Hey, mkinitrd is required too and it's not part of the kernel package.
After thinking about it, I vote for a separate package if it doesn't cause
too much pain.