On 03/08/2012 10:16 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
In some cases they do and we don't need to worry about it, in other cases like the PandaBoard they're likely just being too tight to put a flash chip on the board to hold the FW/BIOS so you have to have a small partition at the beginning of the SD to hold it and the SoC basically searches for a location that is set by pin combinations for the SoC boot code off serial/mmc/usb,
So, the existing firmware exception is tightly worded, it says:
"The files must be necessary for the functionality of open source code being included in Fedora."
I'm not sure this BIOS/FW code actually meets that criteria, can you make that case?
~tom
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