On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman <d...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> I agree as I have also needed to google and search in forums to get >> proper firmware installed in the past in some machines :/ > > +1 from me; I've had a few machines break on kernel upgrades because I > didn't have the proper firmware installed (I guess older kernel > sources came with the firmware?).
This is another problem, namely dependency level problem. I don't see how having kernel sources ebuilds providing /lib/firmware would fix any of the listed issues without causing other "side effects". For starters, if kernel sources provide /lib/firmware, how do you deal with file collisions? > > Cheers, > > Dirkjan > -- Fabio Erculiani
