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Re: Why does Debian distributed firmware not need to be Depends: upon? [was Re: LCC and blobs]



>    Firmware files are not the sort of thing people can create their own
>    versions of.  In most cases the format is not documented and there
>    are no free or even publicly available tools for this, and even in
>    cases where it *is* documented, this is not by any stretch of the
>    imagination a typical use case.
> 

That's not true. Firmware can created by anyone and requires only
documentation and a compiler/linker for the target processor. In many
cases the CPU used is already supported by some free toolchain.
Look for example at :

linux-2.6.10/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx.seq
linux-2.6.10/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.seq
linux-2.6.10/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_fw[1-2].h	
linux-2.6.10/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan_pda.S

Cheers,

Peter (p2).


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