On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 05:48:55AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Before you move the whole driver to non-free, you should know that I have > made > a version of the driver which loads the firmware from files if it is > available (many tg3 users don't *need* the firmware), and I believe that is > the one currently in Debian's kernel tree. I have also designed a package > containing appropriate firmware files for this version of the driver. The > only reason I have not published the package yet is that it was under this > legal cloud. > > The package generates the firmware files as arch-independent binary files > (with a specified endianness) by writing out the hex in a really > simple-minded way. (Each lump of hex has a length and a lump in the C file, > and I just write the the length and the lump out binary, in a defined order.) > > If this binary form counts as "equivalent", then I have a package for you > :-), > and I just have to fix it up to generate a udeb (and get a sponsor).
I think it would probably be better for you not to generate a udeb, and let the linux-modules-nonfree-di-* source packages in d-i build-depend on your firmware package instead; that means we don't have to cope with lots of different firmware udebs in the d-i build system, and can instead just have one or a few packages called "nic-firmware-2.6.11-386", etc. That said, I don't know exactly what we're doing about firmware yet. I have a kernel-wedge patch in Ubuntu which supports generating *-firmware-*-di udebs, although it's a bit clone-and-hack from copy-modules and I haven't ported it to kernel-wedge 2 yet. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
