Re: To package or not to package?
Hi *!
Am Dienstag, den 05.10.2004, 00:57 +0200 schrieb Gianluca Sforna:
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I am interested in packaging the kernel driver for TI ACX100/111
wireless network cards, but this poses some issues:
- currently an older version is present in Dag Wieers repo (thanks
Dag!!). Should I ask him "permission" to work on it before doing
anything? would it clash somehow if present in both repos (dag &
extras)?
Can't speak for Dag, but AFAIK some people already took his spec-files
and build on top of them a version for fedora.us.
But I made the experience that is easier to start with the standard SPEC
file template. If you have problems you still can look into other spec-
files. This has nothing to do with the quality of the spec-files, just
my own experience -- your mileage may vary.
- How do I deal with the card firmware, which is released as a
binary
module (guess much like the intel centrino one)
You need to check the license carefully. I don't know it, but I suspect
it's redistributable at fedora.us -- so maybe livna.org is a better
target. Or leave the firmware out and just place the driver at
fedora.us.
- What kernel version should it target? the latest rawhide, the one
in
Core 2, the last in updates...
The latest in updates.
If you have any further questions just ask me, I packaged some kernel-
modules already for fedora.us/livna.org. There is also a tool (fedora-
kmodhelper) than *can* be very helpfull with kernel-modules, but it's
not a must AFAIK.
HTH
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Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora(a)leemhuis.info>