From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Daryl Van Vorst <daryl@wideray.com>,
"'BlueZ Mailing List'" <bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: RE: [Bluez-devel] Alignment issue
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 14:29:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1092313749.28711.129.camel@pegasus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1092312127.15466.211.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com>
Hi David,
> > The loading of the firmware for the 3Com PCMCIA card and the BlueFRITZ!
> > USB dongle are done through request_firmware(). The Broadcom based
> > dongles are an exception. I personal prefer to use the bcm203x kernel
> > driver for loading the firmware, but this is a 2.6 only feature.
>
> 2.6-only is _fine_. Isn't 2.4 dead yet? I'll make sure we build the
> bcm203x driver and just drop bluez-bluefw.
I don't know if 2.4 is dead, but I think for Fedora Core it makes sense
only to package up bluez-firmware and don't compile and install bcm203x
tool from bluez-utils. Actually this is what SuSE did.
> > The bluez-firmware package only contains the Broadcom firmware files and
> > it will install them by default under /lib/firmware. You need a modified
> > firmware.agent script that also looks for firmware files in that place.
> > We agreed on that path, but this change is not upstream at the moment.
> > Check the Debian packages for an example of a modified script.
>
> The standard place to put firmware files is /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware
> isn't it? Is there a reason for using a different path? Can you
> elaborate on the meaning of 'We' in the above context?
The problem with that path was if you need the firmware before /usr is
mounted and so we decided to use /lib/firmware.
This is the thread about it on the linux-hotplug mailing list:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=8064672
Regards
Marcel
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Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-10 18:38 [Bluez-devel] Alignment issue Daryl Van Vorst
2004-08-10 23:12 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-08-11 9:20 ` Stephen Crane
2004-08-11 11:08 ` David Woodhouse
2004-08-11 19:33 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-08-11 7:13 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-08-11 16:44 ` Daryl Van Vorst
2004-08-11 19:31 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-08-12 8:34 ` David Woodhouse
2004-08-12 9:27 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-08-12 10:01 ` David Woodhouse
2004-08-12 10:22 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-08-12 10:35 ` David Woodhouse
2004-08-12 11:00 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-08-12 11:33 ` David Woodhouse
2004-08-12 11:49 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-08-12 12:02 ` David Woodhouse
2004-08-12 12:29 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2004-08-12 13:36 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-08-13 8:07 ` David Woodhouse
2004-08-13 9:05 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-08-13 9:14 ` David Woodhouse
2004-08-13 11:52 ` David Woodhouse
2004-08-13 12:40 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-08-12 12:53 ` David Woodhouse
2004-08-13 9:58 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-08-13 10:56 ` David Woodhouse
2004-08-12 10:10 ` Stephen Crane
2004-08-12 10:25 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-01-20 14:30 ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-20 14:45 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-01-20 14:59 ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-20 18:14 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-01-21 8:26 ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-23 8:12 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-01-23 11:39 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-01-23 12:29 ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-23 14:40 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-01-23 15:11 ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-23 15:22 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-01-23 23:16 ` David Woodhouse
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-16 9:48 john smith
2004-08-16 10:15 ` Marcel Holtmann
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