Ravenports and firmware/drivers

[ghost]

Do you have firmware/drivers? For example: firmware/drivers for graphics card and network cards?

[kraileth]

No, Ravenports does not currently package those. They are tied closely to the underlying operating system and cannot be generalized to make adding them to a cross-platform packaging system a reasonable thing. It is theoretically possible to do this for specific systems (like for a hypothetical LFS-derived distribution with Ravenports as its primary package manager as you asked about here, though.

[jrmarino]

There are actually a few firmware ports, more for x86-64 though.
you just need to look at https://www.ravenports.com/catalog if you have questions about specific files.

the general answer is no, but that's because nobody has needed it so far.

[ghost]

I have a question. How can Ravenports replace FreeBSD's ports if it doesn't have drm-kmod? The same is even more true with Linux.

[kraileth]

It can't - at least as far as graphical systems go. I've attempted to got that route (i.e. making one of my FreeBSD systems RP-only) years ago. End of the short discussion was to not pursue it further at that time. RP was (and is still) missing a lot of ports for important software and investing too much effort into things that are limited to one particular platform was not the highest priority. But it could definitely be done if there's a good case for it. In general I've been using pkg(8) for drm-kmod and RP packages for just about everything else. That approach works great.

[jrmarino]

if you mean linux's kmod, that's in the repository.
as for freebsd:

1. maybe this is not needed by 100% of the people (not everyone installs desktops)
2. It can be installed from FPC
3. There's probably nothing stopping people from adding to ravenports

[ghost]

if you mean linux's kmod, that's in the repository.

What is the name of the kmod for Intel?

[kraileth]

This is a misunderstanding. Not a kernel module with the Intel graphics driver but the kmod package (which contains tools like modprobe, lsmod and so on). I originally added it because I wanted to package kernel modules - but that has not happened, yet.

[jrmarino]

I'd recommend opening one discussion per specific port request.
(one firmware port per request)