Re: Switching kernel drivers to userland microcode loading, and 'contrib'

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Subject: Re: Switching kernel drivers to userland microcode loading, and 'contrib'
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 15:26:56 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] tslisg53slb.fsf@konishi-polis.mit.edu>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20040412155139.GA9467@wonderland.linux.it> (Marco d'Itri's message of "Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:51:39 +0200")
References: <[🔎] 20040410125441.39296.qmail@web86110.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <[🔎] 87r7uuw1c9.fsf@kreon.lan.henning.makholm.net> <[🔎] 20040412155139.GA9467@wonderland.linux.it>

>>>>> "Marco" == Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> writes:

    Marco> On Apr 12, Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net> wrote:
    >> somthing like request_firmware.  Do we have any packages with
    >> userland support for this in Debian?
    Marco> Hotplug does, but this will not help you much if you need
    Marco> the firmware to boot your system.

I guess you'll be needing an initrd then.

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