On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 23:51 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Monday 04 April 2005 23:23, Jan Harkes wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:17:46PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:27:53PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > Mmm, probably that 2001 discussion about the keyspan firmware, right ?
> > > >
> > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/04/msg00145.html
> > > >
> > > > Can you summarize the conclusion of the thread, or what you did get from it,
> > > > please ?
> > >
> > > That people didn't like the inclusion of firmware, I posted how you can
> > > fix it by moving it outside of the kernel, and asked for patches.
> > >
> > > None have come.
> >
> > Didn't know you were waiting for it. How about something like the
> > following series of patches?
> >
> > [01/04] - add simple Intel IHEX format parser to the firmware loader.
>
> Firmware loader is format-agnostic, I think having IHEX parser in a separate
> file would be better...
Why should this be in-kernel at all? Convert the firmware into a binary
blob or do it in the userspace request.
Kay
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