[Mageia-dev] boot-nonfree.iso ?

Thu Dec 29 22:47:57 CET 2011

Am 29.12.2011 16:35, schrieb Thomas Backlund:
+> Frank Griffin skrev 29.12.2011 17:02:
+>> As I updated cauldron this morning, I noticed the above file come in.
+>> Can someone say exactly what it does and does not address for nonfree
+>> driver and firmware install issues ?
+>>
+>
+> It is the standard boot.iso with added firmwares from nonfree so you can
+> install on hw that needs it to work (during install)
+>
+> Meaning disk controllers, network cards, ...
+>
+> It is still WIP, and has only (for now based on hw I can test):
+>
+> kernel-firmware-extra
+> radeon-firmware
+> iwlwifi-*-ucode
+Nice one ^^
+Thanks for that :)
+>
+> I will add more later as I test it more.
+>
+> I'm not sure about wireless firmware/support as stage1 does not support
+> it yet.
+>
+> Now this does not fix the radeon-firmware issue, as this is only to
+> get installer running on all hw. (I probably will remove radeon-firmware
+> again as it's not needed/used by the installer)
+>
+> For the radeon-firmware (and other nonfree firmware) issue, we still
+> need to fix stage2 installer.
+>
+> -- 
+> Thomas
+>
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