firmware discussion

Jan Sucan sucanjan at fit.cvut.cz
Fri May 26 00:01:53 PDT 2017


On 26.05.2017 08:25, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote:
> On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Jan Sucan <sucanjan at fit.cvut.cz> wrote:
>> Hello sephe,
>>
>> thank you for the question. I am thinking of keeping a part of the old
>> functionality. Firmware for those devices could be compiled into the kernel
>> (by default).
>>
>> I think, this concerns only the isp driver for Qlogic based SCSI and
>> FibreChannel SCSI Host Adapters.
>>
>> Could you please point me to other drivers, which will need the same
>> treatment?
> e.g. mxge(4).
>
> I am not quite sure about other wlan drivers.
>
> Thanks,
> sephe

Oh, I think I get the point now. :-) It will be able for firmware images 
to be compiled into the kernel.

Thanks
jan



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