Hi Ben, And sorry for the long delay before replying to your offer.
Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> (2021-03-12): > firmware-amd-graphics, like most (not all) firmware-* packages in non- > free, is generated from the firmware-nonfree source package. I am one > of the maintainers but currently maks is doing most of the work on it. > > Kernel modules do now mostly contain lists of associated firmware in > their metadata. So in principle we could generate a list of device IDs > from a recent kernel build: for each packaged firmware file, find out > which module(s) refer to it, and add the device IDs the module(s) > support. > > However, we don't generally know which device IDs correspond to which > files. So this would result in: > > * Listing some device IDs that we don't have the firmware for > * Listing some device IDs that don't need firmware files (e.g. older > Intel GPUs) > > Is that kind of inaccuracy acceptable? That would look way better than the status quo, and I'd be happy to get that kind of information, thanks! Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois ([email protected]) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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