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

Hm... Maybe it'll be a good solution. Except cases when somebody will 
need fresh/non-default firmware (is it really needed?)

On 24.06.2018 19:26, Erich Titl wrote:
> Hi Andrew
>
> Am 24.06.2018 um 10:32 schrieb Andrew:
>> Ok, initrd may be better place for it.
> I was trying to find firmware within out packages and I failed in my set
> up. There is a firmware.tgz which we are distributing, so installing
> firmware appears to be a manual process.
>
> We could include it into the modules squashfs unpacked and then build a
> symbolic link from /lib/firmware to it, so it becomes available to the
> driver when this squashfs is mounted.
>
> Then it would not be necessary to save it to configdb and we would
> always have the latest firmware.
>
> cheers
>
> ET
>


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