On Sep 16, 2008, David Woodhouse <dwmw2(a)infradead.org> wrote:
Our 'kernel-firmware' package is currently built from the
kernel source
as a subpackage of the normal kernel build -- but we should stop doing
that anyway, and build it instead as a completely separate package from
the linux-firmware.git repository on
kernel.org. That repository
contains more firmware than the kernel does already, and is going to be
gaining even more.
Speaking of which...
Any chance you could break up your repository into free and non-free
parts, so that Fedora could "build" them as separate packages, out of
separate sources?
Then people doing Free spins could still offer Free firmware, rather
than just removing it all, or having to clean it up in the very same
way that is currently done in linux-libre.
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