Debian/Ubuntu pci firmware.

[Matt Domsch]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 03:58:15PM +0100, Robert Lindgren wrote:
> Just upgrade a couple of 2950s running Ubuntu, all went fine :)
> 
> But only system BIOS is available at this time, are there any plans of
> adding pci firmware on debian/ubuntu, looks like if it's available for
> RPM systems.
> 
> If this has been brought up before I'm sorry if I missed it.


help wanted. :-)

Short story is, dell-lsiflash needs to get debianized (and it's only
available for i386).  Then dell-repo-tools needs to add a
spec/debian_lsi/ directory like spec/debian_bios/ is now.  Both GIT
trees are at http://linux.dell.com/git/.  Note: dell-lsiflash is only
partially open source - the packaging and firmware-tools plugin parts
are, but the actual flash executable is not.

So, plans - sure - I'd love to see them, but I haven't the time to do
it (I didn't have the time to do the BIOS packages either, it cost me
way too many late nights - luckily the MOTU team has been very helpful
in #ubuntu-motu!).  So it will happen sooner if people don't wait on
me to do it - and just give it a try themselves. :-)

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux