On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:38:12AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
No, I did it all:
git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/firmware-2.6.git
(well, not _all_ -- there are more drivers to convert. Help wanted!)
It wasn't rejected -- it's in the linux-next tree and should be going in
to 2.6.27. One we finish converting the drivers, we should have the
capacity to rip _all_ the firmware blobs out of the kernel without
permanently losing functionality.
In case anyone, like me, was wondering what the heck this is all
about,
lwn.net has a good article summarising what David's been doing:
Subscriber-only link:
http://lwn.net/Articles/284932/
Free link:
http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/284932/f332cb16db1c6257/
Rich.
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