Firmware

[Jon Masters]

On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 15:48 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 10:46 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> > Another issue that we never really solved was that we really need to
> > have one firmware package per firmware (group) so that others can
> > possibly override their firmware without replacing the entire
> > kernel-firmware package and affecting everyone. Opinion?
> 
> Later. We can't do it now, and it's not a loss. What we're doing makes
> it _easier_ to do that later, if we want to. But I don't want to try it
> now.

K. I guess I'm just raising it so we're aware of it. It's not exactly a
loss, but my fear is that once we make it possible for someone else to
replace all the kernel firmware just to update their buggy one, then
they'll rush out and do this as soon as possible :)

Jon.