[Intel-gfx] kbl_guc and bxt_guc firmware missing from linux-firmware

Jani Nikula jani.nikula at linux.intel.com
Wed Mar 1 13:23:06 UTC 2017


On Wed, 15 Feb 2017, Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at 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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