Description of problem: Because hotplug is removed fxload isn't installed anymore. When booting udev says it can't find /sbin/fxload This is needed for hardware like my external usb tv-tuner to load the firmware. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Latest rawhide where hotplug is removed How reproducible: Boot with hardware that need fxload
Hm, this is probably best handled by a separate package. Out of curiousity, why doesn't it use the firmware hotplug interface?
I don'tk now. Are there other ways to load firmare? It's a gpl'ed driver from plextor. http://oss.wischip.com This is the driver: http://oss.wischip.com/wis-go7007-linux-0.9.7.tar.bz2 It installs a file in /etc/udev/rules.d/ with this content: ACTION=="add", BUS=="usb", ENV{PRODUCT}=="93b/a002/*", \ RUN+="/sbin/fxload -t fx2 -I /lib/firmware/ezusb/hpi_PX-M402U.hex" ACTION=="add", BUS=="usb", ENV{PRODUCT}=="93b/a004/*", \ RUN+="/sbin/fxload -t fx2 -I /lib/firmware/ezusb/hpi_PX-TV402U.hex" ACTION=="add", BUS=="usb", ENV{PRODUCT}=="eb1/6666/*", \ RUN+="/sbin/fxload -t fx2 -I /lib/firmware/ezusb/hpi_LR192.hex" ACTION=="add", BUS=="usb", ENV{PRODUCT}=="eb1/6668/*", \ RUN+="/sbin/fxload -t fx2 -I /lib/firmware/ezusb/hpi_StarTrek.hex"
Funny you should mention, this is exactly the same driver I'm needing. It won't build on new kernels because of usb changes. But then this fxload issue broke it even more. Any patches?
A new version with 2.6.16 support has been released: http://oss.wischip.com/wis-go7007-linux-0.9.8.tar.bz2 If you want to compile the driver for rawhide you need this patch: http://files.zoeloelip.be/wis-go-0.9.8-2.6.17.patch Are there any docs available on how to load firmare without fxload?
Basically, the driver would need to be converted to the kernel sysfs firmware interface. In the meantime, I don't think there's really anything preventing fxload being added to Extras, and possibly back to core later; as it's an out of tree driver, I'm not sure it's necessary for Core right away.
I've create a spec file for fxload from the hotplug spec file in FC4. I hope this can be used to put fxload into extras or in core. Spec files, srpms and rpms: http://files.zoeloelip.be/fxload/
Any news? It would be nice if this could be included somewhere.
I'm sorry. I should have responded sooner. This is best done by going through the Extras package review process - see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Contributors My apologies again for not replying sooner. Closing as WONTFIX for Core, but it certainly can be added for Extras with a willing maintainer.