Bug 600262 – sys-kernel/genkernel: support --firmware-dst needed to work well in ebuilds

• Product: Gentoo Hosted Projects
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Pavel Šimerda 2016-11-20 08:02:50 UTC]

I am using caster's overlay featuring the gentoo-kernel package. It uses its own version of the genkernel ebuild in order to overcome a limitation of the official package. The patch needed to use genkernel in an ebuild is rather straightforward and just splits `--firmware-dir` into `--firmware-src` and `--firmware-dst`, keeping `--firmware-dir` for compatibility.

The following version of the patch is being used with gentoo-kernel-overlay:

https://github.com/tehcaster/gentoo-kernel-overlay/blob/master/sys-kernel/genkernel/files/0001-firmware-improvements.patch

It looks like it originally comes from funtoo:

https://github.com/funtoo/genkernel/commit/1d946d903c93cd022611eff180c52e2df5855a14

I'm willing to help with this.

[Comment 1 Robin Johnson 2016-11-20 22:51:18 UTC]

I'll merge it, but also note in 3.5.0.6 we no longer install firmware by default, and strongly suggest using the linux-firmware package instead.

[Comment 2 Pavel Šimerda 2017-03-07 23:23:03 UTC]

Sabayon has just merged the change to genkernel-next.

https://github.com/Sabayon/genkernel-next/pull/41

[Comment 3 Robin Johnson 2017-03-07 23:27:16 UTC]

mudler:
gk-next, can you consider using the linux-firmware package instead of having genkernel install firmware? the only case that needs special care then is building for another system.

[Comment 4 Ettore Di Giacinto (RETIRED) 2017-03-08 14:35:58 UTC]

ported same logic used in genkernel: https://github.com/Sabayon/genkernel-next/commit/8e251b1358b9bb6168c2b0b12f85e3bb7ae02ceb

Thanks

[Comment 5 Robin Johnson 2017-03-08 20:45:00 UTC]

pavlix:
Are there any remaining cases where you specifically still need firmware-dst (and can't use the firmware package)?

[Comment 6 Robin Johnson 2017-07-14 19:29:28 UTC]

No response, presuming package is fine.