Hi Matt, After talking to James Bottomley, it seems this only applies to new firmware, which is broken on Linux anyways. The 'V17' firmware apparently works much better, and was submitted to the kernel under the GPL by Adaptec[1]. Would a firmware file extracted from the source code (the aic94xx driver, as submitted, only allows request_firmware) be acceptable, since it would be a derived work of the GPL driver, and thus, under the GPL itself?
I can commit the "GPL" firmware blob to ubuntu-2.6.git if you say this is alright. [1]: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112629509418920&w=2 -- Adaptec SAS adp94xx not in initrd https://launchpad.net/bugs/82382 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
