Am 15.10.2012 21:43, schrieb Bill Nottingham:
Kevin Fenzi (kevin(a)scrye.com) said:
>> 122659574 kernel
>> 117821428 glibc-common
>> 35623360 linux-firmware
>> 14233540 coreutils
>> 13845828 glibc
>
> I wonder... could we make linux-firmware optional?
>
> I would expect many virt env's don't need any firmware to work...
> (but of course I could be wrong).
"It depends". It includes firmware for wired NICs as well as other things,
so it depends on what hardware your virtual environment is deciding to
emulate
surely, it depends
but the hard dependency is a little too much
install it as default at fedora setup is fine
so such wired NICs are supported
but as example on a VMware platfrom these days you are using
vmxnet3 and vmw_pvscsi what means that all virtual hardware
is supported from the upstream kernel