Bug#991969: D-I: news for Bullseye: help with firmware installation

[Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>]

Hi,

Am 7. August 2021 09:01:56 MESZ schrieb "McIntyre, Vincent (S&A, Marsfield)" <Vincent.Mcintyre@csiro.au>:
>On Sat, Aug 07, 2021 at 07:40:52AM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
>>+<para>
>>+  More and more, peripheral devices require firmware to be loaded as
>>+  part of the hardware initialization. To help deal with this problem,
>>+  the installer has been improved. Based on a hardware ID to firmware
>>+  file mapping, if some of the installed hardware requires firmware
>>+  files to be installed, the code installs them automatically.
>>+</para>
>
>How about
>
>+  More and more, peripheral devices require firmware to be loaded as
>+  part of the hardware initialization. To help deal with this problem,
>+  the installer has a new feature. If some of the installed hardware
>+  requires firmware files to be installed, the installer will try
>+  to add them to the system, based on a mapping from hardware ID
>+  to firmware file names.

I would second the last sentence of Vincents proposal ("If some of 
your...") since it's easier understandable.
(I was already unhappy with the original wording, which has been 
proposed by Charles on debian-boot.)

Holger



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