On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 19:22 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le lundi 20 octobre 2008 à 16:34 +0200, Robert Millan a écrit :
> > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 04:21:24PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > > What if, instead of ranting everywhere, you actually contributed code to
> > > fix these bugs?
> >
> > I did...
>
> And you deserve kudos for that.
>
> But still, it is unrealistic to ask, so late in the release process,
> to introduce several thousand-lines patches in the kernel, even if they
> finally exist (and AFAIK there are not patches for all these bugs).
These patches exist, and they change less than a thousand lines in
total. Here's the state of things:
driver bug "source" file(s) licence action
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
cassini 498631 net/cassini.h GPLv2 remove
dabusb 502663 media/video/dabfirmware.h BSDish move (dabusb)
dsp56k 494010 char/dsp56k.c GPLv2 add source
e100 494308 net/e100.c BSDish move (e100)
kaweth 502665 net/usb/kawethfw.h GPLv2 remove
mga 502666 char/drm/mga_ucode.h MIT move (matrox)
qla1280 502667 scsi/ql1{2160,040,280}_fw.h GPLv2 remove
r128 494007 char/drm/r128_cce.c MIT move (ati)
radeon 494009 char/drm/radeon_microcode.h MIT move (ati)
starfire 501152 net/starfire_firmware.h unmodified redist move (adaptec)
tehuti 501153 net/tehuti_fw.h GPLv2 remove
typhoon 502669 net/typhoon-firmware.h unmodified redist move (3com)
whiteheat 502668 usb/serial/whiteheat_fw.h GPLv2 remove
"Action" is what my changes would do. If the licence requires source
distribution, remove. If the licence allows binary-only distribution,
move to firmware-nonfree (the names given are the package names minus
the leading "firmware-". In the case of dsp56k we can provide the
source. In fact Robert has been working to provide a package of the
assembler for the source.
The modified linux-2.6 and firmware-nonfree source packages, and the
linux-source-2.6.26 and firmware-* binary packages, can be found in:
http://people.debian.org/~benh/firmware-removal/
Please test them if you can. I have only been able to test the radeon
changes myself.
Ben.
PS: I've now managed to find firmware for qla1280
<http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/microcode/isp/>,
tehuti
<http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/microcode/tht/> and
kaweth <http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/KLSI/4.0/kue_fw.h> under a
4-clause BSD licence, so they are candidates for firmware-nonfree after
all. The BSD driver for Cassini doesn't have the Saturn firmware patch
and there seems to be no BSD driver for Whiteheat.
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