Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:45:03 +0200 (CEST) | From | Igmar Palsenberg <> | Subject | Re: Device Driver |
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> >I presume your driver doesn't mind if this image is unavailable. > >If not, you'll need to provide a open source image to use in place > >of your proprietary one. > > Linus, please confirm. > > Firmware for cards can be proprietary. It can either be installed by a > userspace utility on startup (nothing to do with the kernel) or it can > be installed by the kernel driver for the card during initialization. > In the latter case, the image must be supplied in text format and > converted to binary, no binary files in the kernel tarball.
Every closed source piece of software is unacceptable in a standard kernel :
- We can't debug it - We depend on the guys / girls that maintain the binary image - It's a security risk.
The last argument weights most in my case.
Igmar
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