Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 May 2008 13:55:16 -0700 | From | "Yinghai Lu" <> | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of the kernel. |
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On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:29:38PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> I very much would like to see a kernel-firmware or something tarbal that contains >> a copy of all relevant "freely distributable" firmware, that users can just install >> independent of the actual kernel version (and that kbuild would just pick up somehow). >> That way we can deal with a lot more firmware without having to pollute the kernel / kernel release process >> (after all, the timing is different in terms of releasing) while making it easy >> to get the lot of it. > > There's definitely two schools of thought on this. Sometimes firmware > changes (or adds) an interface. If the kernel driver has to accommodate > new and old firmware, that adds complexity, and we all know that added > complexity means more bugs. So I can definitely see some vendors > wanting to distribute their firmware with the kernel. > driver should check fw version...
YH
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