>From my understanding, compiling in the firmware runs into both licensing
>problems (GPL and non-Free code) and technical problems (because it's not
>legal, a method has not really been created for this).
But like I said, my problem was the everlasting delay, and once I fixed that my
interest waned.
Timothy J. Massey
Out of the Box Solutions Inc.
Sent from my iPad
On Jul 29, 2011, at 7:17 PM, "Paul Civati" <p...@xciv.org> wrote:
> Timothy J Massey <tmas...@obscorp.com> wrote:
>
> > It's not. Loadable firmware requires udev/hotplug, in my understanding,
> > and the Unattended boot CD doesn't support udev/hotplug
>
> Thanks for the explanation.
>
> > No. AFAICT, loadable firmware has *never* worked with the Unattended boot
> > CD.
> >
> > I asked about this several times in the past with zero feedback.
> > Fortunately for me, it was mostly cosmetic/delay, and I hacked around it.
> > If you look in the list archives starting from April or so 2011 you'll see
> > the bits that I previously posted, including how to reduce the timeout.
> > But if you *need* the firmware, it's not gonna help.
>
> Seems like that will cause a a lot of problems as there seem to be
> quite a few drivers now that load firmware. Is there any way to embed
> them into the driver perhaps?
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Paul-
>
>
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