[Eisfair] linux-firmware 3.1.6 (20220119)

Daniel Vogel daniel_vogel at t-online.de
Do Feb 24 22:56:11 CET 2022


Hallo zusammen,

ab der vorliegenden Version 3.1.6 wurde in Zusammenarbeit mit Thomas 
Quast das von kernel.org abgeleitete Paket "linux-firmware" in 34 
Einzelpakete aufgeteilt, während "linux-firmware" nur noch ein 
Meta-Paket ist.

Nach dem Update ist nur noch ein Teil der Firmware erzwungen durch das 
Meta-Paket installiert [x]. Die übrigen Pakete sind optional.

--------------------------------------------------------------
      name       firmware_amdgpu
      short      Firmware for AMDGPU graphics driver
--------------------------------------------------------------
      name       firmware_ath10k
      short      Firmware for Atheros QCA988x WiFi drivers
--------------------------------------------------------------
      name       firmware_ath11k
      short      Firmware for Atheros Qualcomm WiFi drivers
--------------------------------------------------------------
      name       firmware_atheros
      short      Firmware for Atheros wireless drivers
--------------------------------------------------------------
      name       firmware_bluetooth
      short      Firmware for various Bluetooth drivers
--------------------------------------------------------------
[x]  name       firmware_bnx2
      short      Firmware for Broadcom network drivers
--------------------------------------------------------------
      name       firmware_brcm
      short      Firmware for Broadcom wireless drivers
--------------------------------------------------------------
[x]  name       firmware_chelsio
      short      Firmware for Chelsio network drivers
--------------------------------------------------------------
      name       firmware_dpaa2
      short      Firmware for NXP Management Complex bus driver
--------------------------------------------------------------
      name       firmware_i915
      short      Firmware for Intel i915 graphics driver
--------------------------------------------------------------
      name       firmware_intel
      short      Firmware for Intel-platform device drivers
--------------------------------------------------------------
      name       firmware_iwlwifi
      short      Firmware for Intel wireless drivers
--------------------------------------------------------------
      name       firmware_liquidio
      short      Firmware for Cavium LiquidIO driver
--------------------------------------------------------------
[x]  name       firmware_marvell
      short      Firmware for Marvell network drivers
--------------------------------------------------------------
[x]  name       firmware_mediatek
      short      Firmware for Mediatek network drivers
--------------------------------------------------------------
      name       firmware_media
      short      Firmware for various Video4Linux drivers
--------------------------------------------------------------
      name       firmware_mellanox
      short      Firmware for Mellanox Spectrum switch driver
--------------------------------------------------------------
[x]  name       firmware_network
      short      Firmware for various network drivers
--------------------------------------------------------------
      name       firmware_nfp
      short      Firmware for Netronome Flow Processor driver
--------------------------------------------------------------
      name       firmware_nvidia
      short      Firmware for Nvidia Tegra and graphics drivers
--------------------------------------------------------------
[x]  name       firmware_platform
      short      Firmware for various platform drivers
--------------------------------------------------------------
      name       firmware_prestera
      short      Firmware for Marvell Prestera ASIC driver
--------------------------------------------------------------
      name       firmware_qcom
      short      Firmware for Qualcomm device drivers
--------------------------------------------------------------
[x]  name       firmware_qlogic
      short      Firmware for QLogic network drivers
--------------------------------------------------------------
      name       firmware_radeon
      short      Firmware for Radeon graphics driver
--------------------------------------------------------------
      name       firmware_realtek
      short      Firmware for Realtek wired/wifi/BT adapters
--------------------------------------------------------------
      name       firmware_realtek
      short      Firmware for Realtek wireless drivers
--------------------------------------------------------------
      name       firmware_serial
      short      Firmware for various serial drivers
--------------------------------------------------------------
      name       firmware_sound
      short      Firmware for various sound drivers
--------------------------------------------------------------
      name       firmware_ti
      short      Firmware for Texas Instruments wireless drivers
--------------------------------------------------------------
[x]  name       firmware_ucode-amd
      short      Microcode files used by AMD CPUs
--------------------------------------------------------------
[x]  name       firmware_ucode-intel
      short      Microcode files used by Intel CPUs
--------------------------------------------------------------
      name       firmware_ueagle
      short      Firmware for Eagle IV USB ADSL modem driver
--------------------------------------------------------------
      name       firmware_usb-network
      short      Firmware for various USB WiFi / Ethernet drivers
--------------------------------------------------------------

Insbesondere Firmware von Netzwerk- und Festplatten-Controllern sind 
erzwungenermaßen installiert. Sollte dennoch eine Eurer 
Hardware-Komponenten nicht mehr wie zuvor funktionieren (z.B. 
USB-Hardware, WiFi-Module, etc.), muss vermutlich ein weiteres 
Firmware-Paket installiert werden.

-- 
Gruß Daniel
[eisfair-Team]


Mehr Informationen über die Mailingliste Eisfair