Bug#494308: e100 firmware testing

[dann frazier <dannf@debian.org>]

hey Ben,
 I got around to testing a build from the source you reference in your
blog[1] today - but it appears that the e100 patch in place simply
removes the firmware and marks the driver broken. I see in #494308
that there were a couple of different approaches being considered for
e100, so perhaps e100 is still a work in progress.

 If you decide to move forward w/ a request_firmware() approach, you
might want to take note that the e100 driver will be included in the
initramfs by default. This means that the firmware should be included
in the initramfs as well. You should be able to enable an initramfs
hook in the firmware-nonfree source package - see bnx2/defines for an
example. I know this works for fw blobs that live in /lib/firmware,
but I don't know how well it would deal with files in other
subdirectories (e.g. /lib/firmware/e100/).

Thanks!

[1] http://people.debian.org/~benh/firmware-removal/
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dann frazier