Bug#535922: firmware-nonfree: Need to include 'advansys' firmware
Package: firmware-nonfree
Version: 0.17
Severity: important
Starting with Linux 2.6.30, the advansys firmware is not built into the kernel,
but loaded. This firmware is BSD-licensed so it's safe to put it in non-free (it
has no source so it's not free).
These are the four files needed:
3550.bin
38C0800.bin
38C1600.bin
mcode.bin
They go in /lib/firmware/advansys.
It's in the linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git repo.
It seems important to me that firmware-nonfree start distributing these files before
the 2.6.30 kernel hits 'testing', in order that users of the advansys SCSI cards can
have a smooth transition.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (499, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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