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[Fwd: Firmware package]

This just showed up in my inbox from David Woodhouse, and he's given me
permission to forward it to the list.  I invited him to show up on
#debian-kernel on IRC and he's there now.  

Would be very cool if Fedora and Debian can agree on a consistent way of
packaging and delivering kernel firmware...

Bdale
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Fedora is currently shipping a 'kernel-firmware' package built from the
kernel itself, with only the firmware which has been _extracted_ from
older drivers which used to build it in.

The git repository at
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git
has a bunch of extra stuff; we've just got permission from Conexant to
include their firmware, for example, and we've been collecting a few
other things from people who didn't want to include their firmware in
the GPL'd kernel, but _are_ happy to include it in a separate package
with just 'redistributable' licence.

So that we can ship this extra firmware, I've submitted a new package
for Fedora review, called 'kernel-firmware', which is intended to
replace the existing kernel-firmware which is built as a sub-package of
the kernel itself.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491090

What's the situation with Debian? Can/should we do something similar
there?

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com                              Intel Corporation

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