Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC: install firmware in a kernel-dependent directory | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:50:16 +0100 |
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On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 21:00 +0100, Michael Riepe wrote: > > That means that it shouldn't be delivered with the kernel in the first > place, right? Neither built in nor as a separate file. Maybe that's an > even better solution: distribute it separately.
We do. See the linux-firmware.git repository, which contains a bunch of extra firmware too; not just the bits we've stripped out of legacy drivers.
You can completely ignore the firmware that's shipped with the kernel, and you're right -- it should go away. In time I hope it will.
-- dwmw2
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