On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 12:34:30PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:52:20AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > >> * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060108 11:12]: > >> > There where two fully independent issues here : > >> > > >> > 1) some (many) of those firmware using modules had a sloppy licencing > >> > situation, which meant the compiled kernels where indeed > >> > non-distributable. > >> > > >> > 2) those firmware blurbs come without source, and are thus non-free. > >> > > >> > We where working to solve 1), since without that, it was not even > >> > possible to distribute these non-free firmwares from even non-free. I > >> > think once this is solved the plan was to : > >> > > >> > 1) either make those drivers be able to load the firmware from an > >> > external file, which we could then include in the initramfs from a > >> > non-free source. > > For instance, now that the tg3 firmware is under a distributable license, > with my tg3 patch reinstituted the firmware for specialized tg3 cards would > simply be three files which go in a specific place in the directory tree > and are picked up by hotplug/udev.
If we are going to do this, we obviously need to find out a strong framework how this is supposed to work, and all need to follow the same schema. I heard rumors about your patch being too disruptive, and was thus rejected by davem, we don't want that to happen. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
