linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of the kernel.

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Date:	Fri, 30 May 2008 11:37:50 -0700
From:	"Grant Grundler" <grundler@...gle.com>
To:	"David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com,
	ksummit-2008-discuss@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] RFC: Moving firmware blobs out of the kernel.

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:11 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 14:09 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> I've fought, like, forever, to
>> keep the tg3 driver with it's firmware in-tree.  I refuse to let the
>> driver get broken like that, it's staying working, and that means
>> in-tree and linked into the driver.
>
> Am I missing something here, or is the tg3 firmware contained in
> 'tg3FwText' and similar non-swappable u32 arrays which haven't changed
> _ever_ in our current git history?

It certainly has changed. Maybe that was before the move to git.
ISTR, Last time I looked at the tg3 firmware, it was on version 1.4 or 1.5.

thanks,
grant
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