[oe] [PATCH] linux-firmware: split into bus specific packages.

Eric Bénard eric at eukrea.com
Mon Feb 14 16:17:32 UTC 2011


Hi,

On 14/02/2011 16:58, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 14:08, Filip Zyzniewski
> <filip.zyzniewski at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> The whole reposotiry is about 24MB in size and it's rarely needed
>> whole. It is now splitted into bus specific subpackages (and some
>> device-specific for devices on a bus like SPI or SBUS) all depended
>> on by the linux-firmware package.
>
> I agree that this ought to be split but I think that it should be done
> by vendor:
> realtek, ralink and so on.
>
also there is an other version of this recipe in
recipes/firmwares/linux-firmware.inc
which is already splitted in small packages for some firmware such as :
firmware-atheros-ar9271.bb
firmware-marvell-sd8688_10.38.1-p25.bb

Eric




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