Firmware for Quirky Werewolf

Quirky Werewolf 7.2.3 has rather old network and display firmware, PETs that I created back at kernel version 3.17. Need to update for the 4.2 kernel.

The Ubuntu DEB repository has 'linux-firmware' and 'linux-firmware-nonfree'.

There are two scripts in Quirky, /usr/sbin/updatenetworkmoduleslist.sh and updategpumoduleslist.sh, that will create lists of all network and gpu firmware required by the kernel.

I have created scripts /usr/local/firmware/extract-fw-gpu and extract-fw-network, that will read those lists and extract the firmware out of the Ubuntu DEBs, and create PETs.

Here are the PETs (3MB, 22.5MB):
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky6/noarch/packages/pet_packages-noarch/firmware_linux_display-4.2-20151102.pet
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky6/noarch/packages/pet_packages-noarch/firmware_linux_network-4.2-20151102.pet

Big, but needed for Quirky to work out-of-the-box. Perhaps more firmware PETs could be included in the build? DVB?
Anyway, the Package Manager can be used to install the Ubuntu firmware DEBs.

Tags: quirky, linux