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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