Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lack of time

2013-02-18 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le dimanche 17 février 2013 à 22:47 -0600, Ryan Hill a écrit : > Even after you do that it's hard to figure out what firmware files you > actually > need. I know I need iwl6000 firmware for Intel Ultimate-N 6300 wifi, but > linux-firmware contains: > > iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode > iwlwifi-6000g2a-5.uc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lack of time

2013-02-18 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Ryan Hill schrieb: > He means that until you install the package with all firmware enabled you > don't > know what lines you need to put into the savedconfig file. > > Even after you do that it's hard to figure out what firmware files you > actually > need. I know I need iwl6000 firmware for Int

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lack of time

2013-02-18 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:47 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: > He means that until you install the package with all firmware enabled you > don't > know what lines you need to put into the savedconfig file. I have posted a snippet previously — you basically search for "firmware=..." in kernel modules. It's

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lack of time

2013-02-17 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:42:11 +0100 Michał Górny wrote: > I would justify it through keeping things split and bit-exact clean, > instead of tightly integrated. > > Separate ebuilds mean that: > > - each firmware has proper license, > > - each firmware can be installed separately and it is _clea

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lack of time

2013-02-17 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:40:10 +0100 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Peter Stuge schrieb: > > linux-firmware is okey but not great. The high resolution is there, which > > was my main concern, but > it's not so easy to know how to create a savedconfig without installing > the package. > > Ju