Re: drivers/atm/fore200e_mkfirm error recompiling 2.6.24-1-686
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Bastian Blank wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 07:28:08AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>>> HOSTCC drivers/atm/fore200e_mkfirm
>>> drivers/atm/fore200e_mkfirm -k -b _fore200e_pca_fw \
>>> -i "" -o drivers/atm/fore200e_pca_fw.c
>>> drivers/atm/fore200e_mkfirm: can't open for reading
>>
>> This file is removed from the Debian source, including the relevant
>> Makefile entries.
>>
>
> Thanks Bastian, that explains it. Great job.
>
> Hugo
i agree to your cynicism.
if you wanna help either make copyright holder relicense blob to BSD
or the driver to use request_firmware(), see for the long story
http://wiki.debian.org/KernelFirmwareLicensing
DFSG doesn't allow such blobs in Debian main.
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