On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Bruno <bonbon...@internet.lu> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 February 2013 Maxim Kammerer <m...@dee.su> wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 5:05 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 :/
>>
>> for fw in $(strings -a -n 10 $(find /lib/modules -name '*.ko') | sed
>> -n 's/^firmware=//p' | sort -u); do
>> if [ ! -e /lib/firmware/${fw} ]; then
>> echo ${fw}
>> fi
>> done
>>
>> I guess you can do something similar with vmlinux.bin if compiling
>> modules into kernel.
>
> Last I looked into that the list of firmwares needed by built-in drivers
> is not available as is the case for modules (and in addition those
> built-in drivers may need the firmware long before /lib/firmware/ is
> available)
Most external firmware is not needed to boot. If you need it to boot,
you will have to stow it in the initramfs.
-A
>
> Bruno
>
>> Looking into kernel sources is more robust, but
>> gets annoying fast. Full script I am using is here:
>> https://github.com/mkdesu/liberte/blob/master/src/root/helpers/lst-firmwares
>>
>> You can encounter superfluous warnings with modules that support
>> multiple firmware subversions (e.g., iwlwifi).
>
