netdev - Re: Fore 200 firmware

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Date:	Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:49:35 -0400
From:	"Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)" <chas@....nrl.navy.mil>
To:	Meelis Roos <mroos@...ux.ee>
cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fore 200 firmware

In message <alpine.SOC.1.00.1006011747570.22519@...h.ut.ee>,Meelis Roos writes:
>2.5.1 does not seem to contain the firmware.

oops -- i didnt commit it to the repo.

>does not have to redo the detective work I am doing. Packaging it along 
>with linux-atm packages (atm-tools in Debian) does not seem correct, so 
>do we need to make a special firmware package out of it or just add to 
>some other firmware repo that is packaged already?

i dont care which happens really.  i would to think it is part of
atm-tools since the fore200e driver really isnt useful with the
atm tools.

>What's the licence of the firmware anyway - unknown likely?

it says the firmware is gpl.  look at fore200e_firmware_copyright
in one of the old kernel distros.

>And we can probably remove drivers/atm/fore200e_pca_fw.c if we 
>distribute the firmware out of kernel tree.

i dont think it is in the current net-next-2.6 tree?
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