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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:34:25 -0700
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
To: "Marcel Holtmann" <holtmann@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: New iwlwifi 3945 uCode available
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Marcel Holtmann
<holtmann@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Hi Luis,
>
>> >> > as long as the firmware is a file on the filesystem, it is the old
>> >> > userspace. It is simpler to update a firmware file (in this case
>> >> > installing a new one) then installing additional software, but that
>> >> > doesn't change anything.
>> >> >
>> >> > Our current problem is that our firmware is still not part of the
>> >> > firmware tree David Woodhouse is maintaining. Then we could link it
>> >> > together with the kernel tree. And yes, that is license issue, but it is
>> >> > one that can be solved.
>> >>
>> >> What license issue BTW?
>> >
>> > about putting our ucode into the linux-firmware.git tree?
>>
>> Yeah, what's wrong with the license used right now?
>
> this is not my authority, but as far as I understand it, it is fine, but
> someone inside Intel actually has to give green lights for it. And that
> is neither David or me.

Ah ok :) thanks for the clarification, red tape then.

  Luis