From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756379AbYE3BX2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 21:23:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752707AbYE3BXV (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 21:23:21 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:47129 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751740AbYE3BXV (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 21:23:21 -0400 Subject: Re: RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of the kernel. From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org To: David Woodhouse Cc: Theodore Tso , James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, ksummit-2008-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org, David Miller , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1212077700.26088.83.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> References: <1211995212.3445.52.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080528.225826.40264516.davem@davemloft.net> <1212041839.8888.38.camel@pasglop> <20080529124548.GC8065@mit.edu> <1212077700.26088.83.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 11:22:59 +1000 Message-Id: <1212110579.15633.12.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org .../... > By the time the kernel summit comes around, we should have made decent > progress on moving _all_ the firmware blobs to the firmware/ directory. > And at that point I'd like to remove them completely, to a separate git > tree and tarball. Those who really want to build them in to their static > kernel would still be able to, but it wouldn't be the default behaviour. Pretty much on line with others: I like most of what you propose -except- having the firmwares distributed in a separate git tree. I much prefer having them still in the main kernel, though distro can choose not to do so more easily if they are in a separate directory. Ben.