Re: Intel Microcode loader, tg3 driver, and the -rc8-mmotd NewWorld Order firmware...

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 14:41 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> Headers are not needed for bootup, firmware might be. :) But /usr
> might be on a different partition/disk/storage at the time we need it,
> right?
> 
> I would say /usr/lib/firmware should not even exist, udev does
> intentionally not even look there.

Not /usr/lib/firmware. Currently, when you run 'make firmware_install',
it gets installed to usr/lib/firmware _within_ the kernel build
directory. And you're expected to copy it from there (or override with
'make INSTALL_FW_PATH=/lib/firmware firmware_install')

-- 
dwmw2

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