Re: LCC and blobs

[Måns Rullgård <mru@inprovide.com>]

Anthony DeRobertis <anthony@derobert.net> writes:

> Henning Makholm wrote:
>> Scripsit Anthony DeRobertis <anthony@derobert.net>
>>
>>>That would, however, cover firmware and wind up sending X to
>>>contrib. So maybe: ... iff it is stored on the local machine's file
>>>system.
>> That would be my *intuitive* understanding of how the mail/contrib
>> difference works.
>
> So would a web-based firmware loader, that never saved the firmware to
> disk allow the drivers to be in main?

This could be as simple as mounting a tmpfs on /lib/firmware, and
wgetting some firmware files before loading any modules that might
need them.  The slightly more complicated solution would be to modify
the hotplug scripts to fetch the files automatically.

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Måns Rullgård
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