From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752756AbZBNUur (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:50:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752020AbZBNUui (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:50:38 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:42279 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751943AbZBNUui (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:50:38 -0500 Subject: Re: RFC: install firmware in a kernel-dependent directory From: David Woodhouse To: Michael Riepe Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <499722DF.3020208@googlemail.com> References: <4996B838.2070205@googlemail.com> <3f9a31f40902141115w27f20ecfk81213a21dbe1adbd@mail.gmail.com> <499722DF.3020208@googlemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:50:16 +0100 Message-Id: <1234644617.11641.4.camel@macbook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.3 (2.24.3-1.fc10) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 21:00 +0100, Michael Riepe wrote: > > That means that it shouldn't be delivered with the kernel in the first > place, right? Neither built in nor as a separate file. Maybe that's an > even better solution: distribute it separately. We do. See the linux-firmware.git repository, which contains a bunch of extra firmware too; not just the bits we've stripped out of legacy drivers. You can completely ignore the firmware that's shipped with the kernel, and you're right -- it should go away. In time I hope it will. -- dwmw2