Linux-firmware package splitting upstream

[otherbarry]

If you are going to pin this news may as well link the thread for supporting linux kernels <= 4.19

PSA: New linux-firmware package requires kernel >= 5.3

The linux-firmware package 20220119.0c6a7b3-2 implements kernel firmware compression. Linux kernel from 5.3 on support loading from xz compressed firmware. CONFIG_FW_LOADER_COMPRESS kernel option must be enabled. All official Arch Linux kernel support this for a long time. [1] The linux-firmware package has been split into smaller packages to further reduce required disk space. Some big firmware files of rarely used hardware have been split into separate packages. This affects firmware for M…