Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757272AbYGCMpm (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2008 08:45:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752935AbYGCMpc (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2008 08:45:32 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:53319 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753808AbYGCMpa (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2008 08:45:30 -0400 Subject: Re: Intel Microcode loader, tg3 driver, and the -rc8-mmotd New World Order firmware... From: David Woodhouse To: Kay Sievers Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Tigran Aivazian , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jonathan@jonmasters.org, Shaohua Li , greg@kroah.com, arjan@infradead.org In-Reply-To: <1215088905.9721.86.camel@linux.site> References: <4534.1215048758@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <32146.1215066947@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <1215077028.10393.497.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <65663.1215080245@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <1215081029.10393.517.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <68763.1215084867@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <1215087695.10393.538.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <1215088905.9721.86.camel@linux.site> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:45:12 +0100 Message-Id: <1215089112.10393.544.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 (2.22.2-2.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 829 Lines: 21 On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 14:41 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > Headers are not needed for bootup, firmware might be. :) But /usr > might be on a different partition/disk/storage at the time we need it, > right? > > I would say /usr/lib/firmware should not even exist, udev does > intentionally not even look there. Not /usr/lib/firmware. Currently, when you run 'make firmware_install', it gets installed to usr/lib/firmware _within_ the kernel build directory. And you're expected to copy it from there (or override with 'make INSTALL_FW_PATH=/lib/firmware firmware_install') -- dwmw2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/