Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: Preferred way to load non-free firmware | Date | Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:19:07 +0100 |
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Am Mittwoch, 26. März 2003 14:52 schrieb Jeremy Jackson: > Check the list archive, there was someone telling about support they > added for binary blobs in /proc (or was it sysfs?) for this (among > others) very purpose. > > Please don't make the situation any worse. I'd like to have some hope > that Debian my publish their kernel-source package with a > linux-x.x.x.tar.bz2 that matches the md5sum of the one on kernel.org > some day.
I am sure such a patch, if the Debian people would get it into the mainline kernel, would find its use. But failing that I see no reason why any coder should jump through hoops for the nontechnical concerns of any distribution, including Debian. Using procfs for this is messier than including it in a header file.
Regards Oliver
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