linux-kernel - Re: linux-firmware tree

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Message-ID: <1304365095.6400.20.camel@macbook.infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 02 May 2011 20:38:15 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Mike Waychison <mikew@...gle.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-firmware tree

On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 19:57 +0100, Mike Waychison wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> I'm trying to understand the purpose of the linux-firmware tree.
> Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but the only information
> about it I could find was your original post back in 2008:
> https://lwn.net/Articles/294308/
> 
> Will the Linux kernel sources always continue to have the firmware
> blobs and the linux-firmware tree is only for those users of distros
> that strip the firmware out?

No, the legacy firmware images from the kernel tree are going to be
removed. They were only kept for backward compatibility.

The linux-firmware tree has a lot of things that were never included in
the kernel source; no *new* firmware images are being (or at least
should be) added to the kernel source itself.

Everyone should be using the linux-firmware tree by now.

-- 
dwmw2

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