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Message-Id: <1154639017.23655.121.camel@localhost.localdomain> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 22:03:37 +0100 From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>, greg@...ah.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, Jack Lo <jlo@...are.com> Subject: Re: A proposal - binary Ar Iau, 2006-08-03 am 11:08 -0700, ysgrifennodd Zachary Amsden: > encourage open sourced firmware layers, instead of trying to ban drivers > which rely on firmware from the kernel. The reasons for pushing downloadable firmware out of the kernel are manyfold and based on legal advice. MORAL: Many free software people like a clean separation between the free and non-free components of a system LEGAL: Some firmware isn't publically redistributable but comes with the h/w LEGAL: Several lawyers have advised people that putting firmware separate to the kernel is different to embedding it in kernel in terms of the derivative work question. TECHNICAL: Unswappable blobs of kernel memory taken up by firmware is bad generally speaking TECHNICAL: Pulling 20Mb of unchanging firmware each kernel tree is annoying - 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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