Re: Fwd: [leaf:bering-uclibc] New commit [90bb32] by Andrew Denisenko

Andrew <[email protected]> Sat, 23 Jun 2018 20:41:07 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.linux.leaf.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 23.06.2018 17:56, Erich Titl wrote:
> Hi Andrew
>
>> -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --------
>> Betreff: 	[leaf:bering-uclibc] New commit [90bb32] by Andrew Denisenko
>> Datum: 	Sat, 23 Jun 2018 14:18:02 -0000
>> Von: 	LEAF Linux Embedded Appliance Framework Git repository
>> <[email protected]>
>> Antwort an: 	LEAF Linux Embedded Appliance Framework Git repository
>> <[email protected]>
>> An: 	LEAF Linux Embedded Appliance Framework Git repository
>> <[email protected]>
>>
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>>
>>      Branch: master
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>> etc: mark /lib/firmware as local (to store in configdb)
>>
>> it stored earlier to moddb, but we dropped out moddb support
>>
> Why do you need to store firmware? Unless you are using your own
> firmware which is not part of the distribution there is no need for this.
>
> If you have your own firmware then either make it part of the distro or
> build your own package with it.
>
> cheers
>
> ET
Some NIC drivers (for ex., broadcom) requires firmware in /lib/firmware. 
And currently we have no way to place firmware at /lib/firmware during 
boot (except making record in local.local - which isn't clean for users).

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