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Re: Firmware compression



On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 12:56:47AM +0100, Andrew Doran wrote:
> I think we would do well to convert many of the existing drivers to use
> firmload, but for a few it's probably not an option. Consider the isp
> driver, it might need to be loaded to access the root file system. Also,

The same is true for network drivers. disk and network makes the majority
of the firmware we have in our kenrel these days, I guess ...

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