Dan Williams wrote:
>> Well, that's an annoyance. Would it be that hard to allow modular drivers
>> to compile-in their FW as well? It would be a nice option for
>> those of us trying to build portable pre-compiled kernels for various
>> distributions and distribution versions.
>
> Most of those distros will have firmware loading capability though,
> right? Every non-embedded distro (Fedora, RHEL, SUSE, Ubuntu,
> Slackware, Mandriva, Xandros, etc) has it, so if you're building kernels
> for those, there's not really a problem with dropping firmware into the
> firmware directory for that distro, right?
No, but figuring out the problem from a customer's bug report ("nothing works")
and then finding the firmware and having the customer install it will be much
worse than just having everything work like it used to.
I just see zero benefits to having external firmware
for the vast majority of end-users, and lots of downside
for at least myself.
Thanks,
Ben
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