[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel 2.6.34-1

Thomas Bächler thomas at archlinux.org
Tue May 18 18:47:23 EDT 2010


Am 18.05.2010 21:49, schrieb Nezmer:
> FYI, I had this discussion with the radeon guys months ago in IRC.
> Apparently, kernel guys (maybe Linus) decided to not add new firmware
> files to the kernel tree. That's why we have all those firmware packages
> for in-tree modules.

So, they ship firmware files with the kernel, but only SOME firmware
files? And arbitrarily, others are not being shipped? In particular, old
ones are shipped, and new ones aren't? This annoys me already - but
before I start any discussion, I want to have a source for that. It
might be time to annoy the lkml with this.

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