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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bnx2: factor out gzip unpacker
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:31:06 -0700
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 > Just change the makefiles to always install gzip'ed modules
 > modutils knows how to unzip them on the fly.

But that leaves the uncompressed firmware blobs in .data that ends up
in unswappable kernel memory.

 - R.