On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 12:20:31PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: > Actually, logically these folks are doing the right thing. > > Having firmware *in* the hardware works when you've got years to design > the hardware and then have guaranteed sales for years after that. But, > these days, hardware manufacturers need to make rapid changes and fix > bugs/add new features after release. Not allowing them to do that is > like saying "you can never release an update for F7, no matter what > breaks" - it's not realistic :-) > > So, actually, we should be working to make using loadable firmware > easier - because it's going to become much *much* more common. in other words, from a manufacturer's perspective, disk space is less expensive than flash, because the customer pays for the disk, where you pay for the flash. :-) -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
