On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 08:02:28PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 04:42:23PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > > Contrib exists for software dependencies. This is not a software > > dependency issue. There is no direct relationship between firmware and > > drivers. > > I don't see how you can say there is no direct relationship between > firmware and drivers, when it's most often the driver that opens the > firmware blob, possibly does some parsing, and uploads it to the device. [...]
I was referring to firmware that is loadable in userspace. Firmware like that which you describe, or firmware that is encoded in C files in the kernel source is much more dubious. Due to GPL restrictions, I believe that sort of firmware will all have to be moved to userspace. -- For every sprinkle I find, I shall kill you!