On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:56:25 -0500 (CDT),
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
>Eventually I would like to see firmware uploading in initramfs,
>instead of compiling firmware images into the kernel...
<AOL>Me too</AOL>. Building the firmware images as part of kbuild is
wrong, they should be in separate user space packages. One of my
biggest problems with kbuild 2.5 was supporting the firmware build for
sound and SCSI cards in the kernel, it is all ugly special case code.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Jul 31 2001 - 21:00:48 EST