Andrew McNabb wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:46:53AM -0600, Michael Torrie wrote:
>> AJ ONeal wrote:
>>> How about a binary codec that is dynamically loaded, but not a .so?
>>> Something akin to a hot-swappable firmware.
>> Fedora puts firmware in /lib/firmware
> 
> But isn't this only for firmware loaded by the kernel?  It sounds like
> AJ is talking about something firmware-like that's loaded by an
> application.

You're right.  I'd probably stick non-kernel firmware and loadable
modules in /usr/lib somewhere.  Since there's no execute bit needed to
be set, I wouldn't put them in RH's /usr/libexec

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