Anthony Towns wrote: [snip] > > Is request_firmware going to be used for our 2.4 and even 2.2 kernels as > > well as 2.6? > > TTBOMK, request_firmware is fine for 2.4 as of 2.4.23: > > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0308.3/0215.html > http://lwn.net/Articles/47593/ > > > Herbert has talked about removing drivers from 2.2 as well I think. > > 2.2 kernels in sarge are: > m68k: 2.2.25 (6 variants) > powerpc: 2.2.10 for apus > sparc: 2.2.20 (4 variants: sun4cdm, sun4dm-smp, sun4u, sun4u-smp) > > The m68k variants have corresponding 2.4.25 variants. At least the m86k 2.4 works only for the amiga subarch, AFAIK. I don't know about the others, and I also don't know if any of those actually use firmware downloads. Thiemo
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