Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 07 Apr 2005 05:34:56 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice. |
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Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> writes: > > >>On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 11:11 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> >>>On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:49:25AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >>> >>>>I don't think you did get a rejection, a few people said that _they_ >>>>weren't going to do it, but if you want to then go ahead. I think people >>>>are just fed up of people bringing up the issue and then failing to do >>>>anything about it -- so prove them wrong ;-) >>> >>>Actually patches to add firmware loader support to tg3 got rejected. >> >>I think they will be accepted if they first introduce a transition >>period where tg3 will do request_firmware() and only use the built-in >>firmware if that fails. Second step is to make the built-in firmware a >>config option and then later on when the infrastructure matures for >>firmware loading/providing firmware it can be removed from the driver >>entirely. > > > For tg3 a transition period shouldn't be needed as firmware loading > is only needed on old/buggy hardware which is not the common case. > Or to support advanced features which can be disabled.
TSO firmware is commonly used these days.
> I am fairly certain in that case the firmware came from the bcm5701 > broadcom driver for the tg3 which I think is gpl'd. So the firmware > may legitimately be under the GPL.
It is.
Jeff
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