On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 06:22 +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Shawn Starr wrote: > > Perhaps having OpenIB/OFED drivers so one can install Fedora/RHEL > > over a high speed interconnect? That would be really nice if vendors > > provide firmware that can be redistributed (for some cards). > > > > It would be really cool if vendors' installers could get the firmware > off a user's CD (and even better if it put it in The Right Place so > users don't have to do it twice). > > I have a wireless card that works with Linux but requires a firmware > upload, it would be cool to install over the air. Yeah, we're going to have to tackle a lot of firmware loading issues this release. Part of this - actually loading a firmware - has already been solved (though perhaps not in the best way), but we still need work from the kernel/module-init-tools guys before we can reasonably do *detection* of which firmware images are needed and when. -- Peter
