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Re: Getting Intel Cedarview drivers into Debian



On Fri, 2012-12-21 at 15:03 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Hello Mikko,
> 
> Mikko Rasa <mikko.rasa@movial.com> (21/12/2012):
> > It should be noted that due to licensing issues, the driver will be
> > closed source.
> 
> I should note: lol.
> 
> > There's also one kernel patch that needs to be applied to Wheezy's
> > kernel for the driver to function.  The patch has been accepted to
> > the mainline kernel, and my understanding is that it's included in
> > the 3.7 release[1].
> 
> You may ask kernel maintainers whether they want/will consider
> backporting that patch (if it even makes sense) to 3.2; Ben will
> probably answer this point, otherwise you can reach kernel maintainers
> at <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>.
[...]

This went into 3.2.35.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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