[Lunar-commits] <moonbase> amd-ucode: updated to 2012-01-17

[Zbigniew Luszpinski]

> On 03/14/2012 03:41 PM, Zbigniew Luszpinski wrote:
> > commit ebec88418f9ee3e4430c7fd6271d21ef82c0af57
> > Author: Zbigniew Luszpinski<zbiggy at lunar-linux.org>
> > diff --git a/utils/amd-ucode/BUILD b/utils/amd-ucode/BUILD
> > index 1b00727..b32a9c8 100644
> > --- a/utils/amd-ucode/BUILD
> > +++ b/utils/amd-ucode/BUILD
> > @@ -1,7 +1,14 @@
> > 
> >   (
> > 
> > +   rm -f microcode_amd_solaris.bin*&&
> > +   if [ ! -h /lib/firmware ]; then
> > +      mkdir -p /usr/lib/firmware
> > +      cp -a /lib/firmware/* /usr/lib/firmware/
> > +      rm -rf /lib/firmware
> > +      ln -sf /usr/lib/firmware /lib/firmware
> > +   fi&&
> 
> no, this is wrong, you should instead fix udev to use:
> 
>    --with-firmware-path=/lib/firmware
> 
> and then you can just drop the firmware in /lib/firmware.
> 
> the change you did here breaks linux-firmware.

Putting something except symlinks to /usr/lib in legacy /lib by modules is 
forbidden. If there are still modules which put something in /lib they 
should be fixed to /usr/lib.

> the correct place for firmware is *still* /lib/firmware, and not
> /usr/lib/firmware.
> 
> Auke

Thats weird. Show me any _current_ Linux datasheet/specs which says so.
My Linux documentation says to use /usr/lib and provide a symlink to 
obsolete /lib for legacy applications. This way udev 182 and its friends 
were prepared by me and sent to dev ML. I still wait for acceptance of 2 
devs as we agreed few years ago for critical modules.

Documentation and guidelines for Lunar developers: (you all devs should 
read this!)
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge
Take a special look at Myth #4 and #7. In future Lunar I would like to 
have /usr with all distro content mounted by default read-only for 
security reasons. lin/lrm will be modified to do runtime remount read-
write for install/remove time only.

Human friendly information for humans/Lunar users:
https://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/196-zonker/540696-the-ever-
changing-linux-filesystems-merging-directoris-into-usr

I hope you still remeber our aim to be the most Linux compatibile Linux 
distro.

have a nice day,
Zbigniew Luszpinski