On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Olaf <mailingli...@ban-solms.de> wrote: > On 2014-03-16 03:18, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> I checked out your procedure and it works quite well. The problem is >> that the directory after using make install is 67M for the entire tree. >> My entire /lib directory is only 20M. > > Yeah, I am struggling with the same problem. Even if diskspace is less > of a problem as it was 25 years go, I would still like to keep things as > small as possible. > > >> I don't know that users would want the whole tree. At least I wouldn't. >> How does a user know what firmware is needed? If we could do that, we >> could just mirror the tree, updated daily, and let users download from >> there. >> >> The only way I would think that the user would know what is needed is to >> start with the entire tree in /lib/firmware and check dmesg to see what >> it wants and then delete the rest. I would think there is a better way. > > I had following idea (still to be implemented/tested), in chapter 8.3.1 > the LFS user more or less chooses his kernel config and the required > stuff is build. By using modinfo -F firmware <module> it is possible to > list the firmware files. So using a script that tests all modules should > be produce a list of blobs that matches. Then copy only those instead of > running make install. > > >> One note is that I am suprised that there are copies of firmware in the >> main directory and not in vendor specific subdirectories. > > My guess is that most modules have not been modified/adjusted. > > > Olaf > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page
For radeon, they have a handy table on the gentoo wiki to show what firmware you would want for what device. (No idea how to integrate something like that, but thought I'd throw the link out there) https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Radeon -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) ------ Location: British Columbia, Canada Timezone: PST (-8) Webpage: http://www.nathancoulson.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
