Matthias Schwarzott wrote: > I don't get you. I was having a little fun. My remarks contained references to Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Nowadays, the expression "follow the rabbit" (which, stemming from Alice's Adventures, is actually abbreviated from the act of following the rabbit down the hole) implies that one will discover something by following the metaphorical rabbit (which, in this case, was the link to wiki article on firmware, which itself contained links to the xc3028 IC family article). Though perhaps not a particularly common expression, I'm sure that most are familiar with it or have come across it in other forms and presentations. Pop culture, for example, has many such references -- take the movie "The Matrix", for example, in which, IIRC, the character Morphieus invites Neo to "follow the rabbit" > What do you want for Gentoo? checking the wiki content about firmware? Gentoo is, typically, not associated as a beginners distro. It, generally speaking, requires or, at the very least, affords the user the opportunity to become more familiar with the underlining architecture and mechanics of the OS. One might be tempted to call that a discovery process. Hence, when a Gentoo user like Michele states that they require a firmware entitled "xc3028L-v36.fw", I'm (rightly or wrongly) making an implicit assumption that they would be perceptive enough to make the relevant connection(s) and press forth when presented with a metaphorical rabbit. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
