Re: Please add options to graphics/gpu-firmware-kmod

On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 6:25 AM Emmanuel Vadot <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 4 May 2022 12:43:40 +0300
> Sergey Dyatko <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > After changes in drm ports we've got the ability not to bloat systems
> with
> > useless tons of bytes. Thanks, Emmanuel!
> > I suggest to go further and add options to  graphics/gpu-firmware-kmod
> > (because metaport graphics/drm-kmod still require
> > graphics/gpu-firmware-kmod and installs '200MB+ of useless things' (C))
> >
>
>  I don't see the point.
>  If you don't want all the firmware don't install the metaport ?
>
> --
> Emmanuel Vadot <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
>
> This would be similar to the xorg-drivers meta-port. It simply provides a
list of available drivers for x11 and the desired drivers may be selected
as required. While that one is approaching obsolescence as video drivers
have mostly moved to drm-kmod, mouse and keyboard to evdev and libinput,
the concept is still good and would be appropriate  for
graphics/gpu-firmware-kmod.

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