Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Preferred way to load non-free firmware | From | Jeremy Jackson <> | Date | 26 Mar 2003 08:52:03 -0500 |
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Check the list archive, there was someone telling about support they added for binary blobs in /proc (or was it sysfs?) for this (among others) very purpose.
Please don't make the situation any worse. I'd like to have some hope that Debian my publish their kernel-source package with a linux-x.x.x.tar.bz2 that matches the md5sum of the one on kernel.org some day.
Regards,
Jeremy
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 07:47, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 26. März 2003 11:48 schrieb Nick Craig-Wood: > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:11:46PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > > 7) Encode the firmware into a header file, add it to the driver and > > > > pretend that the copyright issue doesn't exist (like it's done in the > > > > Keyspan USB driver). > > > > > > Hey, that's the way I like doing this stuff :) > > > > If you do this the Debian kernel mainainers will mercilessly rip your > > non-free driver firmware from the standard Debian kernel. At least > > that is what happened with the Keyspan :-( > > That's their problem then. Or rather their users. > IMHO a maintainer's responsibility ends at kernel.org. > >From a technical point of view the firmware needs to be > in ram when you resume from sleep. If you don't care about > updating it, having it in the kernel image uses somewhat less > resources. So I'd say go for it. > > Regards > Oliver > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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