Re: Location of firmware files

[Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>]

Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Brian,
> 
> 
>>>as I already argued I am not really happy with having two locations for
>>>the firmware files. Lets agree on one. We have /lib/modules/ for our
>>>kernel modules and so I think /lib/firmware/ is also fine. What does the
>>>LSB says about it?
>>
>>The LSB doesn't say much in this respect. I had a discussion on this a while
>>back on the FHS list:
>>
>>http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_idh01284
>>
>>The result of this discussion suggested placing them in somewhere in /lib.
>>/lib/drivername was suggested, but it was brought up outside this thread
>>that this could cause problems for devices that can use multiple drivers,
>>such as some scsi devices.
> 
> 
> using something like /lib/drivername will cause much more troubles than
> it will help us. So I think /lib/firmware is a nice place to keep the
> firmware files. The Debian packages already did it this way and so I
> think we should go this way. Any arguments against it?

Sounds fine to me.

Anyone have any opinions regarding microcode/firmware file naming
conventions, or is this something that will be difficult to standardize?


-- 
Brian King
eServer Storage I/O
IBM Linux Technology Center



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