On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Sven Luther wrote: .. > > BTW, what is the thing that is reproached to those drivers ? That we don't > have source to those firmware blobs ? Or that we don't have the right to > modify them ?
the firmware crusade is quite silly, see some comment from upstream: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108239031230575&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109341602728104&w=2 i remember linus saying that loading firmware from userland is dump, but i was not able to retrieve that post. -- maks kernel janitor http://janitor.kernelnewbies.org/