On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 16:42 -0700, David Woodhouse wrote:
We are almost at the point where we can do a spin which remedies
that.
Our 'kernel-firmware' package is currently built from the kernel
source
as a subpackage of the normal kernel build -- but we should stop doing
that anyway, and build it instead as a completely separate package
from
the linux-firmware.git repository on
kernel.org. That repository
contains more firmware than the kernel does already, and is going to
be
gaining even more.
David,
There still looks to be firmware in the kernel source code that hasn't
been separated
out properly yet. For example, tg3.c:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob_p...
I don't know if you're tracking that or not, but I'll need to do a legal
audit at some point to ensure that the firmware is all separated out
from the source.
When we get to a point where the kernel-firmware package is truly
separate, then we're closer to being able to do a free spin, but it is
not the only roadblock.
~spot