On Sad, 2003-04-19 at 21:41, Manuel Estrada Sainz wrote:
> > fwfs is a broken idea because it leaves the data in kernel space. On
> > a giant IBM monster maybe nobody cares about a few hundred K of cached
> > firmware in the kernel, but the rest of us happen to run real world
> > computers.
>
> Many drivers currently include this same data in kernel space, in in
> headers, what I am trying to do is make it easy for them to support
> fwfs (or whatever it becomes in the end).
So what is the value in changing them to this, then changing them again
to put the firmware in userspace ? Surely you'd be better off writing
a generally usable request_firmware() hotplug interface ?
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