Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] bnx2: update bnx2-mips-09 firmware to bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b | From | "Michael Chan" <> | Date | Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:12:13 -0700 |
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On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 15:09 +0100, Chris Webb wrote: > Is there a more automatic method than going through the source for each > configured driver and setting CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE manually to list the > relevant firmwares? Is there any way to give the kernel the location of > linux-firmware and have it compile in everything needed for the selected > drivers, as used to happen with the firmware/ subdirectory? > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR doesn't seem to do anything with > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE empty, so I don't think it does what I'm hoping? >
Most users will just download the linux-firmware tree:
//git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git
and copy all the firmware files to /lib/firmware.
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