Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Intel Microcode loader, tg3 driver, and the -rc8-mmotd New World Order firmware... | From | Kay Sievers <> | Date | Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:03:32 +0200 |
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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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