On Friday 20 June 2008, Joey Hess wrote: > hw-detect could be made smart about detecting when a module it's > loading needs firmware. This is pretty easy to do by modifiying > /lib/udev/firmware.agent to log the names of the module and firware > file if firmware cannot be found. Something like: > > +echo "$PHYSDEVDRIVER $FIRMWARE" >>/tmp/needed-firmware > + > debug_mesg "Cannot find the $FIRMWARE firmware" > exit 1
Makes sense. > Then the module would still fail to initialize[1] -- and hw-detect can > notice this file, and prompt the user for firmware, and then remove and > reload the module if it's provided. Possibly something like 'udevtrigger --retry-failed' might work too. > This should allow us to support ethernet and hard drive controllers > that need non-free firmware. Even the nslu2 could be supported by this, > probably. It would be good to have at least something. This sounds like a good start. We probably do still need to make sure - if we install firmware from a package that licence requirements are met (e.g. display a debconf message included in the package) - if we install loose files that the user gets a message that respecting licence requirements is his responsibility Cheers, FJP
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