From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@kernel.org>
To: clayton@craftyguy.net
Cc: linux-firmware@kernel.org
Subject: Re: firmware files located in root of repo
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 07:56:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+5PVA7t+2U-XOd0zXEagjNPd2_egk-piX5hEG7nJxNZuOjkXA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240206042416.GB5111@craftyguy.net>
On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 7:24 AM <clayton@craftyguy.net> wrote:
>
> Some distributions shipping linux-firmware (e.g. Alpine Linux) split the
> linux-firmware project into multiple packages based on subdirectories in the
> repo, e.g. /amdgpu might be in a linux-firmware-amdgpu package, to allow for
> reducing the rootfs size. Distro images and users can install only the firmware
> they need. Ideally, for this use case, all vendor firmware in linux-firmware
> would be in subdirectories.
>
> iwlwifi makes this more difficult to support. I called out iwlwifi because 1)
> the collective size is large (~175MB, almost 20% of the entire linux-firmware
> repo), 2) there are other "free floating" firmware files at the root of the
> project but it is by far the worst "offender".
>
> Is there a reason why iwlwifi (and other) firmware is in the root of the repo
> and not in some subdirectory ('intel' ?) ?
Historical mostly. But the kernel needs to look in the correct
location for the firmware before it can move.
josh
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2024-02-06 12:24 firmware files located in root of repo clayton
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