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Ar Iau, 2006-08-03 am 11:08 -0700, ysgrifennodd Zachary Amsden: > encourage open sourced firmware layers, instead of trying to ban drivers > which rely on firmware from the kernel. The reasons for pushing downloadable firmware out of the kernel are manyfold and based on legal advice. MORAL: Many free software people like a clean separation between the free and non-free components of a system LEGAL: Some firmware isn't publically redistributable but comes with the h/w LEGAL: Several lawyers have advised people that putting firmware separate to the kernel is different to embedding it in kernel in terms of the derivative work question. TECHNICAL: Unswappable blobs of kernel memory taken up by firmware is bad generally speaking TECHNICAL: Pulling 20Mb of unchanging firmware each kernel tree is annoying - 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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