Re: [gentoo-dev] ROMs category suggestion

2012-07-25 Thread Kent Fredric
On 22 July 2012 16:12, Doug Goldstein car...@gentoo.org wrote: I've got a few ROMs to add to the tree and some which are already in the tree if people have a suggestion where they should live. Short list: ipxe openbios seabios sgabios vgabios -- Doug Goldstein I just noticed that the

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROMs category suggestion

2012-07-25 Thread Kent Fredric
On 23 July 2012 08:48, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina zeroch...@gentoo.org wrote: A fair point, suggestion retracted. I'm on board with sys-firmware as well, but I do see some advantage of the current way of putting the firmware in the category of what it is for... If you wanted, you could do

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROMs category suggestion

2012-07-25 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, Kent Fredric wrote: In short, Yay, thanks for sys-firmware, I look forward to it not being an empty category We could create a category metadata file. ;) Is the following O.K.: The sys-firmware category contains various firmware and microcode. Ulrich

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROMs category suggestion

2012-07-25 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Kent Fredric schrieb: On 23 July 2012 08:48, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina zeroch...@gentoo.org wrote: A fair point, suggestion retracted. I'm on board with sys-firmware as well, but I do see some advantage of the current way of putting the firmware in the category of what it is for... If you

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROMs category suggestion

2012-07-22 Thread Alexey Shvetsov
May be sys-firmware? =) Rick Zero_Chaos Farina писал 2012-07-22 08:53: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/22/2012 12:12 AM, Doug Goldstein wrote: I've got a few ROMs to add to the tree and some which are already in the tree if people have a suggestion where they should live.

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROMs category suggestion

2012-07-22 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il 22/07/2012 01:33, Alexey Shvetsov ha scritto: May be sys-firmware? =) If we make sys-firmware we might want to move the various Intel, Ralink and AMD firmware blobs there as well. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROMs category suggestion

2012-07-22 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: Il 22/07/2012 01:33, Alexey Shvetsov ha scritto: May be sys-firmware? =) If we make sys-firmware we might want to move the various Intel, Ralink and AMD firmware blobs there as well. +1 These packages are currently scattered all over the

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROMs category suggestion

2012-07-22 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il 22/07/2012 06:28, Ulrich Mueller ha scritto: These packages are currently scattered all over the tree: sys-apps, sys-kernel, media-tv, net-wireless, and x11-drivers (maybe more). And for those who wonder if it's worth it: it is, for people like me who tries to run all over the tree, as then

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROMs category suggestion

2012-07-22 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: And for those who wonder if it's worth it: it is, for people like me who tries to run all over the tree, as then I know what to expect out of sys-firmware failures... eix -cI 'microcode-|-ucode|-firmware' --

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROMs category suggestion

2012-07-22 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il 22/07/2012 06:47, Maxim Kammerer ha scritto: eix -cI 'microcode-|-ucode|-firmware' The problem is not finding them, is knowing what's going on when a given package name is merged. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROMs category suggestion

2012-07-22 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:47:27 +0300 Maxim Kammerer m...@dee.su wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: And for those who wonder if it's worth it: it is, for people like me who tries to run all over the tree, as then I know what to expect out

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROMs category suggestion

2012-07-22 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: The problem is not finding them, is knowing what's going on when a given package name is merged. Well, what I meant is that all these packages have a -ucode or -firmware suffix (not sure whether there is a

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROMs category suggestion

2012-07-22 Thread Peter Stuge
Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote: sys-bios? Whatever you (Gentoo developers) do, do not use bios for the category -- well not for anything really. BIOS is merely one specific type of (shitty beyond belief) firmware on one specific type of (shitty beyond belief) hardware. (Well, I've seen the odd

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROMs category suggestion

2012-07-22 Thread Rick Zero_Chaos Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/22/2012 01:22 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote: sys-bios? Whatever you (Gentoo developers) do, do not use bios for the category -- well not for anything really. BIOS is merely one specific type of (shitty beyond

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROMs category suggestion

2012-07-22 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Il 22/07/2012 07:22, Maxim Kammerer ha scritto: just pointing out that there is not much information gained in the package name, Trust me it usually helps more than a little bit to have a common category for them. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu —

[gentoo-dev] ROMs category suggestion

2012-07-21 Thread Doug Goldstein
I've got a few ROMs to add to the tree and some which are already in the tree if people have a suggestion where they should live. Short list: ipxe openbios seabios sgabios vgabios -- Doug Goldstein

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROMs category suggestion

2012-07-21 Thread Rick Zero_Chaos Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/22/2012 12:12 AM, Doug Goldstein wrote: I've got a few ROMs to add to the tree and some which are already in the tree if people have a suggestion where they should live. Short list: ipxe openbios seabios sgabios vgabios sys-bios?