New driver loading scheme for Project Evil, need input

[Chuck Swiger]

Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Luigi Rizzo <rizzo at icir.org> wrote:
[ ... ]
> AFAIK we don't have such a facility. A disc controller (SCSI/RAID?) in the
> tree needs a firmware blob, ath needs a blob (but the license seems to be
> ok, so we can have it in the tree), the newly added WLAN drivers need a
> binary blob and some other pieces need a blob too. Having a general way of
> adding the blob would be better than reinventing the wheel.

Bruce Perens pointed me at an interface called request_firmware(), being 
adopted by Debian to deal with this issue:

http://lwn.net/Articles/32997/
http://lwn.net/Articles/32671/

-- 
-Chuck