On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:31:41PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Sebastian Niehaus <nieh...@web.de> writes: > > > https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware recommends to place manually installed > > firware to /usr/local/lib/firmware.
For reference: it still does. > > If the hardware is plugged in during boot, the firware cannot be loaded > > by udev because it tries to load the firware before /usr is mounted. > > > It does not try a second time. > > > See bug #729252 (duplicate?). ... where Marco d'Itri is uselessly confrontationnal. But Michael Biebl is providing a detailed explanation in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=21;att=0;bug=729252 In short: udev has broken backward compatibility and the search is restricted to /lib/firmware in Jessie. This backward incompatible change imply that https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware and most firmware pages linked from this are giving incorrect instruction. This page is partially autogenerated: it says: Here is a list of Linux modules requiring firmware to operate, generated automatically from Wheezy's linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (Debian 3.2.41-2) kernel. So maybe the generator need to be changed. (GeoffSimmons is CCed) > I'm not entirely sure what you're asking for Debian Policy to do here. > Standardizing on a location for manually-installed firmware is a bit > outside the remit of this document, since we focus on the rules followed > by packaged software. This seems more like something that should be set > by whatever loads the firmware. The wiki page isn't maintained by this > group. It is not unreasonnable per se to document locations where user firmware will be searched by packaged softwares, but this is moot now that the path for manually-installed firmware and package-provided firmware is identical: documenting the search path for package-provided firmware is useful for interoperability between kernel and firmware-providing package. At the very least, the change need to be more publicized to avoid systems to fail to boot due to misplaced firmware after an upgrade. Cheers, Bill. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140210232525.ga18...@pari.math.u-bordeaux1.fr
