Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers.

Dave Jones
2008-07-16T00:09:00Z

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 07:46:33PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 04:55:45PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> > > No, I spelled out a list of projects, what would break, and how it would
> > > break.
> > >
> > > Again,
> > >
> > > * Red Hat driver disks. The build process is unaware of the need to
> > > bundle firmware. Any use with Fedora (or, later, RHEL) will result in a
> > > non-working driver, for the simple reason that firmware is not copied
> > > onto the image.
> >
> > For old RHEL - they won't support 2.6.27, so moot.
> > For next-gen RHEL - they need fixing anyway.
> > For Fedora, they don't (and hopefully won't) exist.
>
> Grin,
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/fedora-install-guide-en/fc5/sn-bootoptions-hardware.html

I don't think any of this stuff has ever been actually used in a Fedora context.
We certainly haven't released any official ones ttbomk.

> Or DKMS, which should package firmware:
> http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml

Not quite the same thing as a driver disk, but I'll humour you..
That handles MODULE_FIRMWARE fine afaik. Though again, this doesn't see much
actual use in a Fedora context.

Dave

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