On Fri, 2021-04-23 at 23:14 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Ben, > > And sorry for the long delay before replying to your offer. > > Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (2021-03-12): > > firmware-amd-graphics, like most (not all) firmware-* packages in non- > > free, is generated from the firmware-nonfree source package. I am one > > of the maintainers but currently maks is doing most of the work on it. > > > > Kernel modules do now mostly contain lists of associated firmware in > > their metadata. So in principle we could generate a list of device IDs > > from a recent kernel build: for each packaged firmware file, find out > > which module(s) refer to it, and add the device IDs the module(s) > > support. > > > > However, we don't generally know which device IDs correspond to which > > files. So this would result in: > > > > * Listing some device IDs that we don't have the firmware for > > * Listing some device IDs that don't need firmware files (e.g. older > > Intel GPUs) > > > > Is that kind of inaccuracy acceptable? > > That would look way better than the status quo, and I'd be happy to get > that kind of information, thanks!
Here's what I came up with: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/firmware-nonfree/-/merge_requests/19 The generated files can be seen in: https://people.debian.org/~benh/firmware-metainfo/ Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm not a reverse psychological virus. Please don't copy me into your signature.
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