Re: [PATCH] firmware: Allow release-specific firmware dir

David Woodhouse
2008-09-11T20:39:01Z

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 13:15 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> This is the firmware that is in the kernel source tree, that has been
> moved to use request_firmware, and was originally tied tightly to the
> kernel drivers themselves.

Not really. Most of it hasn't changed for years; it isn't _really_ tied
that closely to the kernel.

You can just ignore what the kernel ships with, and install the firmware
from the linux-firmware.git repository instead.

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