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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:56:18 +0100 From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> To: Thomas Bächler <thomas@...hlinux.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: linux-firmware tree vs. linux-firmware-from-kernel tree On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 10:52 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Hello David, > > After switching from 'make firmware_install' to using the firmware files > from the linux-firmware tree, I received a bug report about missing > firmware files. While investigating, I noticed that the following > commits are in linux-firmware-from-kernel, but not in linux-firmware: > > Ken Kawasaki (1): > pcnet_cs: add cis of KTI PE520 pcmcia network card > > Michael Chan (2): > bnx2: Update firmwares and update version to 2.0.8. > bnx2: Update 5709 MIPS firmware and version to 2.0.15. > > Vladislav Zolotarov (1): > bnx2x: Use firmware 5.2.13 > > Is there a specific reason why they are missing? Can you merge these > commits into linux-firmware (I did it locally and it went fine, apart > from a minor conflict in the WHENCE file). Yeah, it needs a manual merge, which I don't do very often -- partly because I don't expect us to be adding _new_ non-GPL firmware to the kernel tree. That's just insane. -- dwmw2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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