Binary firmware for ASpeed Technologies graphics chips
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This package contains the binary firmware for ASpeed Technologies graphics chips
supported by the xserver-xorg-video-ast driver.

When updating the initramfs image on systems with an ASpeed BMC (such as all
IPMI devices on Supermicro mainboards since 2015 to today) the following warning
can be seen:

  W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/ast_dp501_fw.bin for module ast

The ast_dp501_fw.bin firmware can be created from the hexdump in
src/ast_dp501fw.h of xf86-video-ast with:

  grep ^0x ast_dp501fw.h  | sed -e 's|,};$|,|' | xxd -r -p - ast_dp501_fw.bin

The upstream git repository of xf86-video-ast can be found at:

  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ast

 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>  Sat, 13 Mar 2021 06:34:23 +0100