Bug#729325: debian-policy: [FHS] /usr/local/lib/firmware not a good directory for hardware plugged in at sytsm boot
Sebastian Niehaus <niehaus@web.de> writes:
> https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware recommends to place manually installed
> firware to /usr/local/lib/firmware.
> If the hardware is plugged in during boot, the firware cannot be loaded
> by udev because it tries to load the firware before /usr is mounted.
> It does not try a second time.
> See bug #729252 (duplicate?).
I'm not entirely sure what you're asking for Debian Policy to do here.
Standardizing on a location for manually-installed firmware is a bit
outside the remit of this document, since we focus on the rules followed
by packaged software. This seems more like something that should be set
by whatever loads the firmware. The wiki page isn't maintained by this
group.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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