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

Jeff Garzik
2008-07-15T23:47:17Z

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

Or DKMS, which should package firmware: