From: CityK <cityk@rogers.com>
To: Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@gentoo.org>
Cc: Jonathan Isom <jeisom@gmail.com>,
Devin Heitmueller <devin.heitmueller@gmail.com>,
Michele <aspeltami@gmail.com>,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: firmware
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:33:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49A1B688.6040909@rogers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200902170944.37882.zzam@gentoo.org>
Matthias Schwarzott wrote:
> Btw. I also had a longer look at the firmeware page in wiki and removed that
> note about gentoo using hotplug-scripts as that is false since a long time.
> CityK you are right, I think most (if not all) current distributions use udev
> to create device nodes and upload firmware into the kernel.
>
>
> Yes this ebuild is there. But it is in some respect outdated, due to lack of
> maintaining. This ebuild fetches the original files get_dvb_firmware also
> fetches and the runs get_firmware to unpack them. (All this due to
> license/re-distribution issues as you all know).
>
Okay, thanks Matthias.
> But: These URLs tend to no longer work after some time, as manufacturers
> update their drivers or web-pages :(
>
> So there should either be someone continuously updating them (in
> get_dvb_firmware and also here in copy).
> Or: We find someone ignoring the licenses and hosting the extracted files
> somewhere.
>
> Regards
> Matthias
I think we are stuck with the former. But, fortunately, it looks like
schollsky is willing to be the point man :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-22 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-15 20:15 firmware Michele
2009-02-15 20:38 ` firmware CityK
2009-02-15 20:54 ` firmware Devin Heitmueller
2009-02-15 22:13 ` firmware CityK
2009-02-15 22:33 ` firmware Devin Heitmueller
2009-02-16 9:25 ` firmware Matthias Schwarzott
2009-02-16 18:00 ` firmware CityK
2009-02-16 18:24 ` firmware Jonathan Isom
2009-02-17 8:44 ` firmware Matthias Schwarzott
2009-02-17 14:39 ` Aw: firmware schollsky
2009-02-22 20:26 ` CityK
2009-02-22 20:33 ` CityK [this message]
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2009-01-29 20:19 Firmware soundprizm
2009-01-30 13:18 ` Firmware Clemens Ladisch
2009-01-20 1:25 Firmware soundprizm
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