Matthias Schwarzott wrote: > Btw. I also had a longer look at the firmeware page in wiki and removed that > note about gentoo using hotplug-scripts as that is false since a long time. > CityK you are right, I think most (if not all) current distributions use udev > to create device nodes and upload firmware into the kernel. > > > Yes this ebuild is there. But it is in some respect outdated, due to lack of > maintaining. This ebuild fetches the original files get_dvb_firmware also > fetches and the runs get_firmware to unpack them. (All this due to > license/re-distribution issues as you all know). > Okay, thanks Matthias. > But: These URLs tend to no longer work after some time, as manufacturers > update their drivers or web-pages :( > > So there should either be someone continuously updating them (in > get_dvb_firmware and also here in copy). > Or: We find someone ignoring the licenses and hosting the extracted files > somewhere. > > Regards > Matthias I think we are stuck with the former. But, fortunately, it looks like schollsky is willing to be the point man :) -- 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
