Subject: Re: Where to put firmware?
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/23/2002 07:41:15
All good points!


On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Martin Husemann wrote:

> > Why not do what FreeBSD does and have the f/w be a kld that you can
> > unload once you're done with it? It seems to me that this is a bit
> > cleaner than an alternate mechanism.
> 
> Another nit: I'd expect several firmwares to come with a "redistribute 
> unmodified copys only" license. How do you deal with that? Force the user
> to convert them into a LKM-able format themselfes?
> 
> Martin
>