Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 12:17:05AM -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote:
> Do you think it would be tolerable to exclude non-free firmware images
> from the kernel binary and modules themselves but to permit loading
> them from the initrd or the root filesystem? I. e., treat the
> firmware download function of a driver as more or less incidental, put
> the non-free firmware in non-free where it belongs, and not force
> drivers to bounce back and forth between main and contrib depending on
> whether there happens to be a working-firmware-in-flash version of the
> hardware they support on the market at a given time?
Once the hardware's out there, it's out there--I don't think the case of
"all devices with firmware in flash have been tracked down and destroyed,
so we have to move this driver back to contrib" is a serious worry.
--
Glenn Maynard
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