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Yes, less download and less cluttered, more ordered - but this is possibly important to know for people who build their own kernels (90% of Gentoo users, e.g.). Some FW you definitely want to have in your kernel image, so it is at hand at boot time and not late once you mounted your FS with /lib/firmware on it. E.g. no radeon FW -> no KMS/black screen maybe. So I'll have to check if there are more files to include now for my old machines.
Stop TCPA, stupid software patents and corrupt politicians!
It makes it easier to separate binary blobs from the kernel. Keep proprietary binary blobs away. They are a security concern as there is no transparency and nobody knows what they do or can do.
This is great! It makes it easier to separate binary blobs from the kernel.
Yeah, because them being in their own folder made separating them from kernel very hard.
Keep proprietary binary blobs away.
This isn't an effort to please FSF, it's housekeeping. Everyone needing firmwares (most users) are taking them from the linux-firmware project, the stuff in that folder in linux kernel source tree was not used anymore.
This isn't an effort to please FSF, it's housekeeping. Everyone needing firmwares (most users) are taking them from the linux-firmware project, the stuff in that folder in linux kernel source tree was not used anymore.
Yes, less download and less cluttered, more ordered - but this is possibly important to know for people who build their own kernels (90% of Gentoo users, e.g.). Some FW you definitely want to have in your kernel image, so it is at hand at boot time and not late once you mounted your FS with /lib/firmware on it. E.g. no radeon FW -> no KMS/black screen maybe. So I'll have to check if there are more files to include now for my old machines.
Actually genkernel provides all the tools you need to make sure that isn't a problem at all. As long as people are using genkernel this change should be completely invisible.
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