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    SubjectRe: Intel Microcode loader, tg3 driver, and the -rc8-mmotd New World Order firmware...
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    On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 13:45 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
    > On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 14:41 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
    > > Headers are not needed for bootup, firmware might be. :) But /usr
    > > might be on a different partition/disk/storage at the time we need it,
    > > right?
    > >
    > > I would say /usr/lib/firmware should not even exist, udev does
    > > intentionally not even look there.
    >
    > Not /usr/lib/firmware. Currently, when you run 'make firmware_install',
    > it gets installed to usr/lib/firmware _within_ the kernel build
    > directory. And you're expected to copy it from there (or override with
    > 'make INSTALL_FW_PATH=/lib/firmware firmware_install')

    Ah, ok. So by default "make modules_install" installs in the rootfs, but
    "make firmware_install" installs in the build directory? Hmm ...

    Thanks,
    Kay



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