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From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
To: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Subject: Re: kbl_guc and bxt_guc firmware missing from linux-firmware
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 15:23:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o9xlcerp.fsf@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170215130140.GC41863@ubuntu-hedt>

On Wed, 15 Feb 2017, Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> wrote:
> Maybe it would be good to have something like MODULE_OPTIONAL_FIRMWARE
> to identify firmware that isn't required but will be used by the driver
> if available. Then mkinitramfs can try to copy those files along with
> the module but know that there's no need to produce a warning if it's
> not present.

The documentation for the current MODULE_FIRMWARE already says,
"Optional firmware file (or files) needed by the module format is simply
firmware file name."

BR,
Jani.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-01 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-14 13:39 kbl_guc and bxt_guc firmware missing from linux-firmware Seth Forshee
2017-02-15 10:28 ` Jani Nikula
2017-02-15 13:01   ` Seth Forshee
2017-02-15 22:56     ` Vivi, Rodrigo
2017-03-01 13:23     ` Jani Nikula [this message]
2017-03-01 14:20       ` Seth Forshee
2017-03-15 10:54         ` Jani Nikula

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