From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755325AbYE2WMA (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 18:12:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756004AbYE2WLi (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 18:11:38 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:36030 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754323AbYE2WLg (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 18:11:36 -0400 Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of the kernel. From: David Woodhouse To: David Miller Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, ksummit-2008-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20080529.140919.160813310.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1212077700.26088.83.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20080529164745.GA21763@kroah.com> <483F1232.4010003@linux.intel.com> <20080529.140919.160813310.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 01:11:00 +0300 Message-Id: <1212099060.18530.53.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.1 (2.22.1-2.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 14:09 -0700, David Miller wrote: > I've fought, like, forever, to > keep the tg3 driver with it's firmware in-tree. I refuse to let the > driver get broken like that, it's staying working, and that means > in-tree and linked into the driver. Am I missing something here, or is the tg3 firmware contained in 'tg3FwText' and similar non-swappable u32 arrays which haven't changed _ever_ in our current git history? -- dwmw2