On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 17:08, Filip Zyzniewski <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/14/11, Otavio Salvador <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I agree that this ought to be split but I think that it should be done >> by vendor: >> realtek, ralink and so on. > > What would be the point of such split? > > I have split it by buses, because currently having full support for > PCMCIA devices on my Jornada 720, I have to install 13MB of PCI > firmwares and 8.5MB of USB firmwares, which I will never use (because > I have neither PCI nor USB bus on it) just to have available the 200kB > of PCMCIA firmwares. > > Most of the firmwares in the repository are for removable devices - we > (as the OE/distrubution maintainers) are by definition not able to > know whose products will the user plug in.
Right but usually we'll have drivers/modules for one, two or three vendors that are used or demanded to be supported and then those firmware needs to be supported as well. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: [email protected] http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
