Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.
- To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
- Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>, Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>, debian-legal@lists.debian.org, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
- Subject: Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.
- From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
- Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:28:05 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20050407102805.GA9586@infradead.org>
- Mail-followup-to: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>, Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>, debian-legal@lists.debian.org, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 4254FEC0.5060708@pobox.com>
- References: <[🔎] 20050404192945.GB1829@pegasos> <[🔎] 20050404205527.GB8619@thunk.org> <[🔎] 20050404211931.GB3421@pegasos> <[🔎] 1112689164.3086.100.camel@icampbell-debian> <[🔎] 20050405083217.GA22724@pegasos> <[🔎] 1112690965.3086.107.camel@icampbell-debian> <[🔎] 20050405091144.GA18219@lst.de> <[🔎] 1112693287.6275.30.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <[🔎] m1wtrfk8w3.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> <[🔎] 4254FEC0.5060708@pobox.com>
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 05:34:56AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >For tg3 a transition period shouldn't be needed as firmware loading
> >is only needed on old/buggy hardware which is not the common case.
> >Or to support advanced features which can be disabled.
>
> TSO firmware is commonly used these days.
Because our TSO support has been totally broken for a long time?
Reply to:
- References:
- Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.
- From: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
- Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.
- From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
- Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.
- From: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
- Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.
- From: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
- Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.
- From: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
- Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.
- From: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
- Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.
- From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
- Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.
- From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
- Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.
- From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
- Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.
- From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>