Armin K. wrote: > I have noticed that we don't seem to cover firmware installation > anywhere in LFS. The trick is that some modern network cards and most > wireless ones require firmware to function. Radeon cards also require > firmware (most of them does iirc) but we cover that in BLFS. It doesn't > stop there, but I find these 3 cases to be most common ones. > > It would be nice if we included some instructions about firmware in LFS. > > Most of the firmware can be downloaded from kernel.org git repository: > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/ > > Some firmware is shipped in the kernel tree.
Firmware is tied pretty tightly to the kernel. I suppose a section at the end of Section 8.3 right after Configuring Linux Module Load Order would be educational. Would like to make a draft of what you have in mind? -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
