Re: Bug#258082: missing advansys module
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
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> BTW, what is the thing that is reproached to those drivers ? That we don't
> have source to those firmware blobs ? Or that we don't have the right to
> modify them ?
the firmware crusade is quite silly,
see some comment from upstream:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108239031230575&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109341602728104&w=2
i remember linus saying that loading firmware from userland is dump,
but i was not able to retrieve that post.
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maks
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