On Jan 2, 2011, Richard Stallman <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it the case that you only need these files if you are running that > module?
No, the pcmcia infrastructure was rewritten in 2.6.12 or .13. The program no longer works for me with a current kernel, but I can't tell whether it is because the interface is no longer available after the rewrite, or because it's only provided if a PCMCIA socket is present. I don't have any machines left with PCMCIA sockets :-( The Card Information Structure (CIS) files are still required to override the incorrect CIS data supplied by a number of PC Cards. > Is it the case that you can always install that module even if you don't > have PCMCIA in your machine? I've just tested that it is possible to load some specific PCMCIA socket driver on a machine that doesn't have any PCMCIA interfaces, but I don't think I can even build the ancient 2.4-ish pcmcia module with a current kernel, let alone run it :-( >> Another possibility is to separate all this from Linux, > This is what's going to happen in upcoming releases of Linux. We might > as well do that right away. > That's a fine solution. The files are already present in the linux-firmware repository. Should we (Linux-libre project) maintain our own cleaned-up linux-libre-firmware repository, or leave that for some other project to undertake? This might even serve as proving ground for the git rewriting solution we're going to adopt for Linux-libre. It would be much simpler, due to its much shorter history, less frequent changes, and smaller number of (remaining) files. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer _______________________________________________ linux-libre mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre
