Add firmware support to stage-1 #158
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This ends up being useful to peek into the initrd cpio without actually having to crack it open. I have used this to track down a bad symlink.
Much better than the ad-hoc way used in a previous PR
The firmware is part of the unfree redistributable set already in nixpkgs, so unlike some other devices in-tree (asus-z00t) we can directly add the firmware to the build without any issue.
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This adds proper support for adding firmware into stage-1.
This PR also adds an example usage of this with
asus-dumo.When providing firmware for use during stage-1, pare down the set as much as sensible for your device!