Doubts about blacklisting non-free-firmware modules
1) Introduction
The current approach to non-free-firmware in live-build is that if some
specific sections are turned on then the firmware is used.
I want to rework that code in such a way that you can turn off
non-free-firmware from isolinux/grub.cfg boot menu thanks to kernel
module blacklisting.
So... the draft of it is almost finished and I will try to integrate it
onto live-build in the future.
2) The way my script works is getting
`firmware-amd-graphics.metainfo.xml` file from `firmware-amd-graphics`
package and `firmware-misc-nonfree.metainfo.xml` file from
`firmware-misc-nonfree` package.
An excerpt of them would be:
```
<firmware type="runtime">moxa/moxa-1653.fw</firmware>
<firmware type="runtime">moxa/moxa-1658.fw</firmware>
<firmware type="runtime">mt7601u.bin</firmware>
<firmware type="runtime">mt7650.bin</firmware>
<firmware type="runtime">mt7662.bin</firmware>
<firmware type="runtime">mt7662_rom_patch.bin</firmware>
<firmware type="runtime">mts_cdma.fw</firmware>
<firmware type="runtime">mts_edge.fw</firmware>
<firmware type="runtime">mts_gsm.fw</firmware>
<firmware type="runtime">nvidia/ga102/acr/ucode_ahesasc.bin</firmware>
<firmware type="runtime">nvidia/ga102/acr/ucode_asb.bin</firmware>
```
.
What I am doing right now is just getting those ones that have an slash
in their name, so from the previous excerpt I would be using: `nvidia`
and `moxa` but not `mt7601u.bin`, `mt7662_rom_patch.bin`, `mts_cdma.fw`
and so on.
My question is... should I include those ( `mt7601u.bin`,
`mt7662_rom_patch.bin`, `mts_cdma.fw` ) too?
3) Just for reference what I am able to produce right now it's:
```
amdgpu,r128,radeon,3com,advansys,brcm,cadence,cxgb3,cxgb4,dabusb,e100,ene-ub6250,go7007,i915,imx,intel,kaweth,matrox,mediatek,moxa,nvidia,rockchip,tehuti,tigon,ueagle-atm,wfx
```
so that I can prepend them with: `module_blacklist=` in an hypothetical
*Libre-only modules* boot option that I want to add.
4) I am currently using simple tools like awk to parse the xml, I'm not
sure if I'm better off using the firmware-nonfree source package for
getting all of those kernel modules.
So any ideas are appreciated.
Thank you for your feedback!
adrian15
