Jason Self wrote:
John Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote ..
If this log shows that there is still nonfree firmware in
the kernel...
There does seem to be. For example /Documentation/video4linux/extract_xc3028.pl
is still around. The program itself is free software, but its sole purpose
appears to be extracting non-free firmware out of a Windows driver so that it
can be used on GNU/Linux. There also appears to be some stuff still hanging out
in /firmware as well.
The request_firmware calls are also less than ideal. IIRC, it writes a
log message about needed firmware if the firmware file is missing, thus
suggesting that the users should install said firmware. I also seem to
recall some mechanism that could even automatically download missing
firmware (e.g. from the manufacturer's website), but I could be wrong.
