Re: Bug#239952: kernel-source-2.6.4: qla2xxx contains non-free firmware
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:47:32PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 02:50:15PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> >> > And more and more users will just ignore the official kernel package,
> >> > because it will not support modern hardware.
> >> Noooo... all the brand-new hardware on my newest machine is supported
> >> without firmware updates.
> >
> > Really? You'd be surprised how much hardware requires firmware updates
> > to work. What hardware do you have in that box?
>
> Pentium IV,
depending on the hardware revision you'll need to load new microcode for
it to work reliably. If you're lucky the bios does that for you, if not
you need the linux microcode driver to load one.
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