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This new 'firmware' package contains the firmware blobs required by the device drivers in a LinuxKit kernel. The list of required blobs is determined by calling 'modinfo' on each module. We also unconditionally include the AMD CPU microcode and the licence files. Signed-off-by: Rolf Neugebauer <rolf.neugebauer@docker.com>
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The `firmware` package contains updated firmware files required by any
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driver compiled as a module. Based on the modules included in a recent
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LinuxKit kernel, copy the required firmware binaries as reported by
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'modinfo'. We deliberately do *not* pick the latest version here to
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prevent it being updated on kernel updates. Firmware revisions do not
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change very often and we expect older and newer kernels to work with a
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range of firmware binaries.
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Note: The current mechanism only handles firmware blobs required by
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modules and ignores firmware blobs required by drivers compiled into
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the kernel. However, with the LinuxKit kernels we typically compile
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all hardware drivers as modules.
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