Subject: Re: Intel Microcode loader, tg3 driver, and the -rc8-mmotd New
	World Order firmware...
From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 13:45 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 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')

Ah, ok. So by default "make modules_install" installs in the rootfs, but
"make firmware_install" installs in the build directory? Hmm ...

Thanks,
Kay

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