Re: Bug#239952: kernel-source-2.6.4: qla2xxx contains non-free firmware
Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 12:01:26PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> This is hardly relevant to the topic, but do you have proof of this?
> It looked beneficial in some circumstances to me in some profiling
> I did recently.
If I were you I'd take hch's word on this.
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