Am Sonntag, den 31.08.2008, 15:08 +0200 schrieb Stefanik Gábor:

> Wouldn't this enable distros to ship the necessary firmware in their
> network installation boot CDs? Currently a working boot CD requires
> the cut firmware files to be included - but such a CD is inherently
> illegal to distribute, as it includes modified versions of files
> marked as illegal to modify. (Scripting fwcutter to automatically cut
> the firmware on boot could possibly solve this issue, but that
> requires a writable root filesystem.)
it requires any writable file system. IE, /tmp could be mounted as
tmpfs, which is writable. then they could: 
a) change the firmware path from /lib/firmware to /tmp/firmware
b) have a symlink in /lib/firmware/b43 to /tmp/firmware/b43
c) etc...

you see this is a solvable problem.

the next thing is that most boot cd's already HAVE a writeable / thx to 
unionfs / tmpfs or simmilar things.
> 
-- 
Thomas Ilnseher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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