Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:10:38 -0500 | From | Chris Adams <> | Subject | Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. |
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Once upon a time, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> said: >* Red Hat driver disks. The build process is unaware of the need to >bundle firmware. Any use with Fedora (or, later, RHEL) will result in a >non-working driver, for the simple reason that firmware is not copied >onto the image.
Then Red Hat driver disks are already broken, as there are current modules (e.g. qla2xxx) that require external firmware.
>* Embedded projects like OpenWRT, that divide up kernel modules into >multiple packages. Since it's not just one big package, you have to >update each package's list of files to include the newly split-out >firmwares. Failure to do so results in a successful build set of >packages... of drivers that lack their firmware.
AFAIK OpenWRT and the like don't just throw in random new kernel releases without at least reading release notes and testing. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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