Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of the kernel.

[Yinghai Lu]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:29:38PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> I very much would like to see a kernel-firmware or something tarbal that contains
>> a copy of all relevant "freely distributable" firmware, that users can just install
>> independent of the actual kernel version (and that kbuild would just pick up somehow).
>> That way we can deal with a lot more firmware without having to pollute the kernel / kernel release process
>> (after all, the timing is different in terms of releasing) while making it easy
>> to get the lot of it.
>
> There's definitely two schools of thought on this.  Sometimes firmware
> changes (or adds) an interface.  If the kernel driver has to accommodate
> new and old firmware, that adds complexity, and we all know that added
> complexity means more bugs.  So I can definitely see some vendors
> wanting to distribute their firmware with the kernel.
>
driver should check fw version...

YH
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