Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:38:38 -0700 |
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On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 13:15 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > This is the firmware that is in the kernel source tree, that has been > moved to use request_firmware, and was originally tied tightly to the > kernel drivers themselves.
Not really. Most of it hasn't changed for years; it isn't _really_ tied that closely to the kernel.
You can just ignore what the kernel ships with, and install the firmware from the linux-firmware.git repository instead.
-- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation
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