Re: Bug#239952: kernel-source-2.6.4: qla2xxx contains non-free firmware
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 12:36:57AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> (its firmware was in the source). I notice that upstream linux 2.6.4
> contains a rewrite of the e100 driver that no longer loads binary-only
> firmware over the firmware built-in to the hardware, but the binary-only
> firmware did have a performance advantage over the built-in firmware
> which is presumably now lost.
Actually it didn't. Linux upstream and Intel are not Debian, and they
don't really care about your issues here. The firmware was added
because hardware checksum offloading was on the checklist for the
original driver author, and it has been removed now because it doesn't
provide any benefit with modern host cpus but complicates the code a
lot.
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