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Moving the firmware out

Posted Jun 5, 2008 9:42 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
Parent article: Moving the firmware out

Are there drivers in the kernel with firmwares and GPL-compliant source for the firmware?

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Posted Jun 5, 2008 12:25 UTC (Thu) by cladisch (✭ supporter ✭, #50193) [Link]

drivers/usb/serial/keyspan_pda.S and xircom_pgs.S are the firmware source code files for the
keyspan_pda driver.

Moving the firmware out

Posted Jun 5, 2008 17:27 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

The Symbios 53c8xx firmware in drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_fw*.h is 
GPLed. (It even has a GPLed relocation engine :) )

Moving the firmware out

Posted Jun 5, 2008 21:27 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

I like the comment about getting the right assembler: "Get as31 from {URL}, and hack on it a
bit to make it build."