[Mageia-dev] boot-nonfree.iso ?

[Florian Hubold]

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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