{"id":2049,"date":"2017-09-15T13:52:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T20:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2017-09-15T13:52:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T20:52:37","slug":"kernel-4-14-no-more-firmware-in-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2049","title":{"rendered":"Kernel &#8211; 4.14 &#8211; No More Firmware in Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel 4.14-rc1 will soon be out, and one change is the removal of the &#8216;firmware&#8217; portion of the kernel tree..\u00a0\u00a0 <strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"># make firmware_install<\/span><\/strong> will no longer work.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, this in-kernel-tree firmware has not been updated since 2013 (!) and all appropriate firmware has been supplied by the &#8216;linux-firmware&#8217; distro packages for some time..<\/p>\n<p>Details here:\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1709.1\/04650.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1709.1\/04650.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 September 15, 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel 4.14-rc1 will soon be out, and one change is the removal of the &#8216;firmware&#8217; portion of the kernel tree..\u00a0\u00a0 # make firmware_install will no longer work. Apparently, this in-kernel-tree firmware has not been updated since 2013 (!) and all appropriate firmware has been supplied by the &#8216;linux-firmware&#8217; distro packages for some time.. Details here:\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1709.1\/04650.html Robert <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2049\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1672,14,15],"tags":[1673,1674,291,1675],"class_list":["post-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firmware","category-kernel","category-linux-2","tag-kernel-4-14","tag-kernel-firmware-removed","tag-out-of-date","tag-supplied-by-distros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}