On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 11:31:41AM +0200, Sander van Grieken wrote: > Hi, > > Currently, linux-firmware produces one big package with all binary > firmware files installed. It would be benificial , especially for > devices with a very small rootfs, to install only a subset of the entire > collection. Some effort has been done to split off separate packages, > but it's not clear what the preferred naming should be. > > - Should it follow the kernel-module-* naming, e.g. > kernel-module-ath9k-htc would need linux-firmware-ath9k-htc? > - Or should it follow the firmware file naming, e.g. linux-firmware-htc-7010 > - Or maybe have a bit larger packages and simply split by vendor, e.g. > linux-firmware-atheros > - How and if to package the license file > > Thoughts?
Because we even split all kernel modules into seperate packages we should do it for firmware files too. But that is a lot of monkey work, you need to check for all firmware files and make the right packages. The scheme of the package names seems fine to me. Bye Henning _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
