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Date:      Wed, 6 Sep 2023 11:37:51 -0700
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: git: cf94672363d6 - main - rtw88/rtw89: remove local firmware.
Message-ID:  <d9be0f6a-baed-55f1-5ea1-390e1392a631@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <202309052116.385LGoau059784@gitrepo.freebsd.org>
References:  <202309052116.385LGoau059784@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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On 9/5/23 2:16 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> The branch main has been updated by bz:
> 
> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=cf94672363d6638b7268c05b4628b62bbfc8dbe5
> 
> commit cf94672363d6638b7268c05b4628b62bbfc8dbe5
> Author:     Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>
> AuthorDate: 2023-06-08 21:35:09 +0000
> Commit:     Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>
> CommitDate: 2023-09-05 21:13:18 +0000
> 
>      rtw88/rtw89: remove local firmware.
>      
>      Remove firmware from src/ in favor of the ports/packages and fwget(8).
>      This will allow us to shrink the size of src (and installed modules).
>      Update the rtw88 man page to reflect the change.

How does this interfact with doing an install to a machine over one of these interfaces?
Will the install media need to have the suitable firmare packages pre-installed in
the image?  I'm not sure that's something we do today in our install images?

-- 
John Baldwin




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