[oe] linux-firmware

[Henning Heinold]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 11:31:41AM +0200, Sander van Grieken wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently, linux-firmware produces one big package with all binary
> firmware files installed. It would be benificial , especially for
> devices with a very small rootfs, to install only a subset of the entire
> collection. Some effort has been done to split off separate packages,
> but it's not clear what the preferred naming should be.
> 
> - Should it follow the kernel-module-* naming, e.g.
> kernel-module-ath9k-htc would need linux-firmware-ath9k-htc?
> - Or should it follow the firmware file naming, e.g. linux-firmware-htc-7010
> - Or maybe have a bit larger packages and simply split by vendor, e.g.
> linux-firmware-atheros
> - How and if to package the license file
> 
> Thoughts?

Because we even split all kernel modules into seperate packages we should do it for firmware files
too. But that is a lot of monkey work, you need to check for all firmware files and make the right packages.
The scheme of the package names seems fine to me.

Bye Henning