Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755895Ab0K3ANs (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:13:48 -0500 Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:45148 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751555Ab0K3ANr (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:13:47 -0500 Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:13:44 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Francois Romieu Cc: hayeswang , "'Ben Hutchings'" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "'David Miller'" , 564628@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/r8169: Correct the ram code for RTL8111D(L) Message-ID: <20101129161344.059239d6@nehalam> In-Reply-To: <20101129233334.GA2888@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <1290772470-23713-1-git-send-email-hayeswang@realtek.com> <1290779458.3051.45.camel@localhost> <20101126224914.GA12266@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <1290813146.3051.58.camel@localhost> <20101129233334.GA2888@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Organization: Vyatta X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.22.0; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1624 Lines: 42 On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:33:34 +0100 Francois Romieu wrote: > hayeswang : > > Excuse me, I have some questions about the firmware patch. > > > > 1. I should convert the data into the binary files (.bin). Is it right? > > You may do it. > > Fwiw I have cooked something for it in the attached patch #9 this WE. Feel > free to take bits from it. I will not do more changes while you work on it. > > > 2. Where should I update the firmware files? Is the path the > > linux-2.6/firmware? > > ! This directory is only here to contain firmware images extracted from old > ! device drivers which predate the common use of request_firmware(). > > It is fine for the existing code. > > > However, according to linux-2.6/firmeware/README.AddingFirmware, I > > should update they to another repository: > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git > > /me scratches head. > > Assuming Realtek does not intend to stand this code / data as GPLable, yes. > It will help people staying clear from non-free code, it will help packaging > something useful and it will remove some cruft from the code. > > So everybody will end happy. Especially after an aspirin. The plan is to do away with linux-2.6/firmware entirely. Distributions are shipping the firmware from linux-firmware, not the kernel files. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/