On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 09:17:08PM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > * CONFIG_WANXL --> CONFIG_WANXL_BUILD_FIRMWARE > > * CONFIG_SCSI_AIC79XX --> CONFIG_AIC79XX_BUILD_FIRMWARE > > > > To this day both of these drivers are building driver *firmwares* when > > the option CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD is disabled, and they don't > > even make use of the firmware API at all. > > Don't know for sure about Adaptec, but wanXL firmware fits every > definition of "stable". BTW it's a 1997 or so early PCI card, built > around the PLX PCI9060 bus mastering PCI bridge and Motorola 68360 > (the original QUICC) processor. Maximum bit rate of 2 Mb/s on each sync > serial port. So we can nuke CONFIG_WANXL_BUILD_FIRMWARE now? > It's more about delivering the .S source for the firmware, I guess. > Nobody is expected to build it. The fw is about 2.5 KB and is directly > linked with the driver. :P Future work I guess would be to just use the firmware API and stuff it into linux-firmware? Luis
