[Bug 491090] Review Request: kernel-firmware - firmware files for use with Linux kernel

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--- Comment #10 from Nicolas Chauvet (kwizart) <kwizart at gmail.com>  2009-09-14 17:34:48 EDT ---
Ok I've missed that the archive can be downloaded from another place.

NeedChange - pick the tar.bz2 seems more appropriate instead of the tar.gz as
Source0:

* Juste a note:
/lib/firmware/rt2860.bin
/lib/firmware/rt2870.bin
Thoses firmware comes from Ralink, but the kernel support for them might be
missing. (they are missing from 2.6.30 at least)

* From the initial package (~300ko) to the current (~9000 ko), the package
grown by a ratio of 30. I'm really in favour of more splitting. On the other
side, we will probably need to update the guideline about how to package
firmware, because we used to have one package per module (which module name
used to match the firmware package name).

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Firmware and
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:LicensingGuidelines#BinaryFirmware. 
Quoting: "Firmware packages must be named <foo>-firmware, where <foo> is the
driver or other hardware component that the firmware is for. "
This will probably need to update the current packaging guideline WRT
firmwares.

* I used to try to make a dvb-firmware package using the get-dvb-firmware perl
script bundled in the kernel-doc package, but thoses files where conflicting:
/lib/firmware/v4l-cx231xx-avcore-01.fw
/lib/firmware/v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw
/lib/firmware/v4l-cx23885-enc.fw
/lib/firmware/v4l-cx25840.fw

But some firmwares from http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/ are still
missing, I expect it would be better to have another archive/package for those
v4l/dvb firmware to avoid conflict and to have them sorted (at least) by
category.

Do we have an updated package (as suggested in c#6)?

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