Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:02:04 -0400 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. |
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On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 04:55:45PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> No, I spelled out a list of projects, what would break, and how it would > break. > > Again, > > * Red Hat driver disks. The build process is unaware of the need to > bundle firmware. Any use with Fedora (or, later, RHEL) will result in a > non-working driver, for the simple reason that firmware is not copied > onto the image.
For old RHEL - they won't support 2.6.27, so moot. For next-gen RHEL - they need fixing anyway. For Fedora, they don't (and hopefully won't) exist.
Dave
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