Josh Boyer wrote:
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 16:16 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> Apparently the qlogic drivers don't have any firmware included in FC7,
> so nobody can actually use a qlogic adapter. Should we be patching the
> kernel like in FC6 or do we need a separate package? Or maybe the
> firmware goes in the kernel package?
>
> Peter says the support for Anaconda / mkinitrd to load the firmware
> is already written, so we could do it either way.
If it fits these guidelines:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#BinaryFirmware
Yeah. I saw those. But the problem is that this might be needed in the
bootpath. We /probably/ don't want the kernel package depending on a
billion of these other packages for the moment - do we? Wouldn't it just
be easier to have the firmware in that package for now, since it used to
be in the kernel anyway? Eventually we need to fix this differently.
Jon.