Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 11:11 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:49:25AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
I don't think you did get a rejection, a few people said that _they_
weren't going to do it, but if you want to then go ahead. I think people
are just fed up of people bringing up the issue and then failing to do
anything about it -- so prove them wrong ;-)
Actually patches to add firmware loader support to tg3 got rejected.
I think they will be accepted if they first introduce a transition
period where tg3 will do request_firmware() and only use the built-in
firmware if that fails. Second step is to make the built-in firmware a
config option and then later on when the infrastructure matures for
firmware loading/providing firmware it can be removed from the driver
entirely.
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.
I am fairly certain in that case the firmware came from the bcm5701
broadcom driver for the tg3 which I think is gpl'd. So the firmware
may legitimately be under the GPL.
It is.
Jeff
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