From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jketreno@linux.intel.com, vda@ilport.com.ua, pavel@ucw.cz,
netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ipw2100-admin@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: ipw2100: firmware problem
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 02:29:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42A7E1D6.3070509@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050608.231319.95056824.davem@davemloft.net>
David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
> Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 02:06:05 -0400
>
>
>>Therefore, the easiest way to make things work today is to poke Intel to
>>fix their firmware license so that we can distribute it with the kernel :)
>
>
> Seperate firmware from the in-kernel driver is a big headache for
> users. As DaveJ has stated, people make mistakes and try to match up
> the wrong firmware version with the driver and stuff like that. And
> he should know as he has to deal sift through bogus bug reports from
> people running into this problem.
>
> If it's integrated, there are no problems like this.
Early userspace is (a) shipped with the kernel source tree and (b)
linked into vmlinux. That's integrated.
The firmware images will be separate from the .c files (as they should
be), but the kernel hacker still controls what gets loaded, and when.
But like I said, that's where we're going, not where we are now.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-09 6:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-08 14:23 ipw2100: firmware problem Pavel Machek
2005-06-08 14:44 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-08 14:56 ` Jirka Bohac
2005-06-08 16:29 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-21 7:42 ` Simon Kelley
2005-06-21 8:29 ` Feyd
2005-06-21 8:46 ` Simon Kelley
2005-06-08 15:05 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-06-08 15:23 ` Jiri Benc
2005-06-09 6:09 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-09 6:16 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-09 6:25 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-09 6:28 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-09 6:37 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-09 8:36 ` Wichert Akkerman
2005-06-09 10:42 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-09 19:53 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-09 21:01 ` James Ketrenos
2005-06-09 21:11 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-09 21:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-09 22:11 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-10 2:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-10 2:46 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-06-10 9:00 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-10 13:00 ` John Stoffel
2005-06-10 13:33 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-06-09 14:31 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-06-10 6:56 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-10 13:23 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-06-10 20:26 ` Lee Revell
2005-06-10 21:00 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-06-10 21:07 ` Lee Revell
2005-06-13 16:42 ` Jan Rychter
2005-06-11 12:44 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-08 17:10 ` James Ketrenos
2005-06-08 19:43 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-08 19:49 ` Dave Jones
2005-06-08 19:54 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-09 6:03 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-09 6:10 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-09 6:17 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-09 6:20 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-09 6:30 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-09 6:35 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-10 3:51 ` Jim Crilly
2005-06-09 6:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-09 6:13 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-09 6:29 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2005-06-08 16:58 ` James Ketrenos
2005-06-08 21:27 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-08 21:46 ` James Ketrenos
2005-06-08 22:34 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-09 3:33 ` Zhu Yi
2005-06-09 10:56 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-09 13:56 ` Andi Kleen
2005-06-09 21:12 ` Olivier Galibert
2005-06-09 23:13 ` Jeff Garzik
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