Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix rt28{6,7}0sta to use firmware loader | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:19:06 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 19:24 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 01:12:41AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 19:44 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 03:33:12AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > Greg, > > > > > > > > The Ralink drivers rt2860sta, rt2870sta and rt3070sta contain non-free > > > > firmware which should be distributed separately. > > > > > > Where is it now distributed? I don't want to break people's machines > > > that were working before this patch is applied. > > > > The canonical source is > > <http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html> > > Yes, and that is where I got the code that is in the driver tree that > you are objecting to now :)
You shouldn't have done. We stopped including firmware for new wireless drivers _years_ ago. It's perfectly normal that users are expected to fetch the firmware separately (or their distribution does it for them).
> > The files are now also in the Debian repository for our firmware-nonfree > > package and in <http://git.decadent.org.uk/git/linux-firmware.git>. > > I've asked David Woodhouse to pull from that into his linux-firmware.git > > so that they get into other distros.
I'd be a lot happier with that having a signed-off-by from within Ralink, even though the licence is unambiguous. But I've pulled it anyway, this time. You can download the 'release' at http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD
(Still haven't really worked out what the best strategy for 'releases' is, given that people should just be using the latest version from the tree. Maybe an automatic git-archive from cron each day, if something's change from the previous day?)
-- dwmw2
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