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

Dave Jones
2008-07-15T23:09:20Z

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.

Dave

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