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

[Chris Wilson]

Quoting Rodrigo Vivi (2018-01-29 21:40:27)
> 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Also it seems that 01.org page is outdated and it doesn't contain DMC 1.27 for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.

If a user sees this message, then linux-firmware has failed them...

> 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.

Since we tie firmware to kernel version, I think it behooves us to carry
a complete history; and redundancy is never a bad idea. Fwiw, the local
storage should be a linux-firmware.git branch so that files are tracked
universally.
-Chris