How to Add Firmware to your repo?

AdamWill / baytrail-m

[THIS IS ALL VERY OLD! You might wanna check out https://linuxiumcomau.blogspot.com/ instead or something]Stuff useful for running Linux on Bay Trail-m based devices: Dell Venue 8 Pro, Lenovo Miix 2, Acer Iconia W4, Asus T100, Toshiba Encore...

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How to Add Firmware to your repo? #10

Closed dillera closed 9 years ago

dillera commented 9 years ago

Looking to better support the Acer BayTrails.

I found this:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/intel

But I have no idea how to get that into your firmware folder here, and from there build a new kernel. I'm building a fresh rawhide system to attempt this, but for now I'm trying to track down Acer specific stuff for your repo.

AdamWill commented 9 years ago

Well, that firmware is already included in Fedora and Fedlet as the package 'linux-firmware'. If there's a file that was only very recently added it may not be in the Fedora package yet, but it's updated pretty frequently. Our current F23 package is a 2015-07-15 snapshot.

Usually if your problem is a missing firmware file, the driver will log it in the journal.

dillera commented 9 years ago

Ok, np, it's not a new file I found, just confused on my end.