[haiku-commits] Re: r35100 - haiku/trunk/build/jam
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:17:30 +0100
Colin Günther <coling@xxxxxx> wrote:
> axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx schrieb:
> > * Give the iprowifi3945 driver more exposure by adding it to the
> > image by
> > default (it works for me).
> Would be nice if we could coordinate such a switch. I'd prefer to add
> the firmware based drivers *and* their firmware in a narrow time
> window
> to the image.
>
> I doubt, that just adding the driver to the image gives it more
> exposure, as there is no decent documentation on how and where to
> install the firmware.
It does at least try to load, and getting the binaries isn't that easy
otherwise (as opposed to just downloading the firmware from somewhere,
as documented in the wiki).
> Unfortunately this *adding* of the firmware to the image is somewhat
> more complicated because I need to write a rule to untar+gunzip the
> firmwares.
Do you prefer that I remove that driver again?
Bye,
Axel.
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