From: Dave Jones <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 15:49:02 -0400
> FWIW, I agree, though the licensing of the Intel firmware
> prevents that iirc. The biggest problem I face with this driver
> in Fedora kernels is users mismatching firmware rev with the
> driver version. Another problem that disappears if the two
> are shipped together.
Yep, this license definitely hurts users, in many many ways.
If this kind of external firmware requirement existed for a popular
SCSI controller, more people would be up in arms about this and
understand the issue more clearly.
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