On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:07:58AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Herbert Xu wrote: > > In accordance with the latest directive from the RM, I shall recommence > > the removal of non-free firmware where no acceptable solution using > > user-space firmware loaders has been provided. > > Is anyone planning on doing work on writing patches to use the request > firmware stuff to move the firmware to userspace? i believe someone said they were working on this, and then herbert said at a later point that he would no longer accept patches unless they came from upstream. perhaps i'm mistaken or this has changed? also, along these lines, i think if we're taking this out of the kernel for sarge, it would be very considerate for us to provide the following: - a list of hardware that uses said firmware - the appropriate load_firmware hooks as discussed - a non-free driver disk with said firmware - a d-i hook to "load firmware from non-free driver disk" at bootup sean
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