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

KP Kirchdoerfer via leaf-devel <[email protected]> Wed, 04 Jul 2018 18:28:18 +0200
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Hi Andrew;

On So, 2018-06-24 at 21:32 +0300, Andrew wrote:
> Hm... Maybe it'll be a good solution. Except cases when somebody
> will 
> need fresh/non-default firmware (is it really needed?)

Do you plan to change/fix this for 6.1.4?

kp

> 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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