[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Remove Firmware URL.

[Rodrigo Vivi]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 08:45:24PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Srivatsa, Anusha (2018-01-29 20:17:25)
> > 
> > 
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: Vivi, Rodrigo
> > >Sent: Friday, January 26, 2018 10:22 AM
> > >To: intel-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
> > >Cc: Vivi, Rodrigo <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com>; Srivatsa, Anusha
> > ><anusha.srivatsa at intel.com>
> > >Subject: [PATCH] drm/i915: Remove Firmware URL.
> > >
> > >The right place for the firmware is linux-firmware.git.
> > >We shouldn't advertise anywhere to users to start downloading firmware blobs
> > >manually.
> > >
> > >Also it seems that 01.org page is outdated and it doesn't contain DMC 1.27 for
> > >SKL, for instance. Probably other firmware releases are missing there, while they
> > >are part of the official linux-firmware.git.
> 
> Then get them onto 01.org. If Intel cannot be relied on to provide their
> own firmwares, the alternative is to stop shipping blobs entirely.

I understand your point. But the goal is to have only one place and this place
is linux-firmware.git.

The web-page will still have the information about the firmware and
a text explaining the linux-firmware repository.

But what I want is to avoid any users with the impression they
have to manually go there and install anything.

> -Chris