Re: [lfs-dev] Proposal: Firmware instructions

2014-03-18 Thread akhiezer
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 21:35:05 -0700 > From: Nathan Coulson > To: LFS Developers Mailinglist > Subject: Re: [lfs-dev] Proposal: Firmware instructions > . . > > For radeon, they have a handy table on the gentoo wiki to show what > firmware you would wa

Re: [lfs-dev] Proposal: Firmware instructions

2014-03-17 Thread Nathan Coulson
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Olaf wrote: > On 2014-03-16 03:18, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> I checked out your procedure and it works quite well. The problem is >> that the directory after using make install is 67M for the entire tree. >>My entire /lib directory is only 20M. > > Yeah, I am st

Re: [lfs-dev] Proposal: Firmware instructions

2014-03-16 Thread Olaf
On 2014-03-16 03:18, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I checked out your procedure and it works quite well. The problem is > that the directory after using make install is 67M for the entire tree. >My entire /lib directory is only 20M. Yeah, I am struggling with the same problem. Even if diskspace is le

Re: [lfs-dev] Proposal: Firmware instructions

2014-03-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Olaf wrote: > On 2014-03-15 04:44, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> Hmm, just tell me in your own words how you do it. Don't worry about >> what tools to use right now. > > This is how I currently create 'snapshots': > > # linux-firmware lives in GIT > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/l

Re: [lfs-dev] Proposal: Firmware instructions

2014-03-15 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
Em 15-03-2014 14:01, Armin K. escreveu: > git server instructions > for BLFS. So it might take some time unless someone beats me to it. I don't know how you are thinking. This subjects is extremely disagreeable for me to discuss. But I have to. One thing I do not understand is: systemd wants a

Re: [lfs-dev] Proposal: Firmware instructions

2014-03-15 Thread Armin K.
On 03/15/2014 05:26 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Olaf wrote: >> On 2014-03-15 04:44, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >>> Hmm, just tell me in your own words how you do it. Don't worry about >>> what tools to use right now. >> >> This is how I currently create 'snapshots': >> >> # linux-firmware lives in GIT >>

Re: [lfs-dev] Proposal: Firmware instructions

2014-03-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Olaf wrote: > On 2014-03-15 04:44, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> Hmm, just tell me in your own words how you do it. Don't worry about >> what tools to use right now. > > This is how I currently create 'snapshots': > > # linux-firmware lives in GIT > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/l

Re: [lfs-dev] Proposal: Firmware instructions

2014-03-15 Thread John Burrell
> > I have noticed that we don't seem to cover firmware installation > anywhere in LFS. The trick is that some modern network cards and most > wireless ones require firmware to function. Radeon cards also require > firmware (most of them does iirc) but we cover that in BLFS. It doesn't > stop there

Re: [lfs-dev] Proposal: Firmware instructions

2014-03-15 Thread Olaf
On 2014-03-15 04:44, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Hmm, just tell me in your own words how you do it. Don't worry about > what tools to use right now. This is how I currently create 'snapshots': # linux-firmware lives in GIT http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/ # The

Re: [lfs-dev] Proposal: Firmware instructions

2014-03-14 Thread William Harrington
On Mar 14, 2014, at 10:29 PM, Armin K. wrote: >>> Some firmware is shipped in the kernel tree. Yeah make firmware_install What's next? Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above i

Re: [lfs-dev] Proposal: Firmware instructions

2014-03-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: > On 03/15/2014 02:36 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Armin K. wrote: >>> I have noticed that we don't seem to cover firmware installation >>> anywhere in LFS. The trick is that some modern network cards and most >>> wireless ones require firmware to function. Radeon cards also require >>

Re: [lfs-dev] Proposal: Firmware instructions

2014-03-14 Thread Armin K.
On 03/15/2014 02:36 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Armin K. wrote: >> I have noticed that we don't seem to cover firmware installation >> anywhere in LFS. The trick is that some modern network cards and most >> wireless ones require firmware to function. Radeon cards also require >> firmware (most of the

Re: [lfs-dev] Proposal: Firmware instructions

2014-03-14 Thread William Harrington
On Mar 14, 2014, at 9:09 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > At least one of my nics wants the firmware (I've seen error > messages when booting without it), but it seemed to work fine > without it! I suspect it maybe had an old version. > > ĸen I have an old Pentium 3 system with a Tyan Thunder LE board an

Re: [lfs-dev] Proposal: Firmware instructions

2014-03-14 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 01:49:54AM +0100, Armin K. wrote: > I have noticed that we don't seem to cover firmware installation > anywhere in LFS. The trick is that some modern network cards and most > wireless ones require firmware to function. Radeon cards also require > firmware (most of them does

Re: [lfs-dev] Proposal: Firmware instructions

2014-03-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: > I have noticed that we don't seem to cover firmware installation > anywhere in LFS. The trick is that some modern network cards and most > wireless ones require firmware to function. Radeon cards also require > firmware (most of them does iirc) but we cover that in BLFS. It doesn'