Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel,use it in more drivers.

[Jeff Garzik]

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 04:55:45PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>  > No, I spelled out a list of projects, what would break, and how it would 
>  > break.
>  > 
>  > Again,
>  > 
>  > * Red Hat driver disks.  The build process is unaware of the need to 
>  > bundle firmware.  Any use with Fedora (or, later, RHEL) will result in a 
>  > non-working driver, for the simple reason that firmware is not copied 
>  > onto the image.
>
> For old RHEL - they won't support 2.6.27, so moot.
> For next-gen RHEL - they need fixing anyway.
> For Fedora, they don't (and hopefully won't) exist.

Grin,
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/fedora-install-guide-en/fc5/sn-bootoptions-hardware.html

Or DKMS, which should package firmware:
http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml

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