feature request: update linux-firmware

[VladimirMrzv]

feature request: update linux-firmware

[bkw777]

As far as I can tell this is out of scope.

kernel.ubuntu.com does not produce any package named "linux-firmware", and the kernel packages don't declare any dependency on such a package either.

If the mainline-ppa site produced a firmware package, we could include it and install it like the rest, but they don't.

If the kernel packages declared a dependency on a firmware package that the system was supposed to provide (like they do for libc, libssl, etc) then we could maybe run a dpkg info command to detect that requirement and maybe try an update, but they don't.

I'm not willing to try to touch any other packages than the supplied packages themselves or maybe explicitly declared dependencies, because that would be unexpected and break some people.

Please see the faq section of the readme:
https://github.com/bkw777/mainline?tab=readme-ov-file#help--faq
Including the first big link to the MainlineBuilds wiki

If there is something you still think should and could be done, please explain it in more detail. Maybe a config option for user-specified extra commands or something?