[Joey Hess] > The problem with making hw-detect look in pool/ is that it does not know > what debs contain firmware. It assumes there will not be too many debs > in the places it looks, and so it examines them all, unpacking them to > find ones that contain the firmware files. If it also looked in pool/, > it would unpack every deb on the CD, which would be horribly slow.
Right. Perhaps hw-detect should be told? A mechanism like the ones used by iceweasel plugins, adding information to the packages, might work. For example the gnash plugin contain this info: Xb-Npp-Applications: ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384,92650c4d-4b8e-4d2a-b7eb-24ecf4f6b63a,aa5ca914-c309-495d-91cf-3141bbb04115 Xb-Npp-MimeType: application/x-shockwave-flash Xb-Npp-Name: Gnash SWF Player Why not add the name of the firmware file included in the deb using a similar mechanism, and teach hw-detect to search for it? > That source package does not contain all available firmware, FWIW. > You're missing at least zd1211-firmware and > atmel-firmware. debian-cd has a list in tasks/firmware. Thank you. I'll try to make sure we include the complete list on the Debian Edu CD and DVD. :) Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100314210147.go11...@login2.uio.no
