Re: move marvell firmware tarballs out of OE repo?

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

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On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:

> Dnia poniedziałek, 18 stycznia 2010 o 01:31:13 Rolf Leggewie napisał(a):
> > Paul Menzel wrote:
> > > Anyways looking at the relevant commit
>
> > > it does not explicitly say, why the firmware cannot be made public
> > > somewhere or if it ever will be available.
>
> > No, nobody was suggesting it would.  But it does list Marcin's address.
> >  So, he can be contacted directly instead of needlessly bothering
> > everybody on this list with this.
>
> And Robert took the worst timing for such mails - I do not know how
> others but I do not read all mails during weekend.

  slacker.  :-)

> On Sunday morning I sent mail with info why several tarballs are
> present in metadata. He was probably sleeping at that time. I just
> hope that in 6 hours from now Robert will be able to reply to this
> mail.

  or sooner.  in any event, i did post earlier that i understand there
will be rare and unusual circumstances where content will have to be
incorporated with the OE repo.  in cases like that, it would be handy
to have a short README file in the corresponding recipes directory
explaining the rationale for it, and perhaps even the circumstances
under which that content might someday be removed and actually
downloaded, just so anyone else might recognize when that can be done.

  that's entirely up to the people responsible for those tarballs.

  movin' on ...

rday
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