Qlogic firmware isn't in the FC7 kernel
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Thu Mar 29 20:46:29 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 16:16 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> Apparently the qlogic drivers don't have any firmware included in FC7,
> so nobody can actually use a qlogic adapter. Should we be patching the
> kernel like in FC6 or do we need a separate package? Or maybe the
> firmware goes in the kernel package?
>
> Peter says the support for Anaconda / mkinitrd to load the firmware
> is already written, so we could do it either way.
If it fits these guidelines:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#BinaryFirmware
We should probably do it in a separate package as described here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2007-February/msg00292.html
so qlogic-firmware or some such.
josh
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