Re: firmware

[CityK <cityk@rogers.com>]

Matthias Schwarzott wrote:
> Btw. I also had a longer look at the firmeware page in wiki and removed that 
> note about gentoo using hotplug-scripts as that is false since a long time. 
> CityK you are right, I think most (if not all) current distributions use udev 
> to create device nodes and upload firmware into the kernel.
>
>
> Yes this ebuild is there. But it is in some respect outdated, due to lack of 
> maintaining. This ebuild fetches the original files get_dvb_firmware also 
> fetches and the runs get_firmware to unpack them. (All this due to 
> license/re-distribution issues as you all know).
>   
Okay, thanks Matthias.

> But: These URLs tend to no longer work after some time, as manufacturers 
> update their drivers or web-pages :(
>
> So there should either be someone continuously updating them (in 
> get_dvb_firmware and also here in copy).
> Or: We find someone ignoring the licenses and hosting the extracted files 
> somewhere.
>
> Regards
> Matthias

I think we are stuck with the former.  But, fortunately, it looks like
schollsky is willing to be the point man :)