Re: Qlogic/FC firmware

From: Matthew Jacob (mjacob@feral.com)
Date: Tue Aug 21 2001 - 13:53:48 EST


On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> >
> > >>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> >
> > >> If the firmware was out of date, update it to a known "Qlogic stamp
> > >> of approval" version.
> >
> > Alan> That requires sorting licensing out with Qlogic. I've talked to
> > Alan> them usefully about other stuff so I'll pursue it for a seperate
> > Alan> firmware loader module.
> >
> > Well getting firmware out of them tends to be up and down.
> >
> > However I just looked through the QLogic v4.27 provided driver from
> > their web site and it does in fact included firmware with a GPL
> > license.

Interesting- I should have checked- they didn't use to have GPL on the f/w.
Earlier driver versions didn't! Oops!

-matt

-
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 : Thu Aug 23 2001 - 21:00:44 EST