Firmware

[Jarod Wilson]

Jon Masters wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 15:53 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 10:51 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
>>> K. I guess I'm just raising it so we're aware of it. It's not exactly
>>> a loss, but my fear is that once we make it possible for someone else
>>> to replace all the kernel firmware just to update their buggy one,
>>> then they'll rush out and do this as soon as possible :)
>> Better option might be another directory which appears first on udev's
>> (and mkinitrd's) search patch. That way you can override firmware
>> without having to split the package.
> 
> And that of course is a nicer fix, yeah, then people can have their own
> per-device firmware package if they choose to do so. Coolness.

Yeah, something like /lib/firmware/updates/ sounds gravy. I was initially 
thinking we could have a kernel-firmware package that was a meta-package, 
pulling in umpteen individual firmware packages (a la xorg-x11-drivers), but I 
like this idea better.


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Jarod Wilson
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