PCMCIA .cis files

Alexandre Oliva lxoliva at fsfla.org
Mon Jan 3 23:35:15 UTC 2011


On Jan  1, 2011, Ted Smith <teddks at gmail.com> wrote:

> It does look relevant -- am I correct in understanding that in future
> releases of Linux, the binary .cis files will be replaced with the text
> versions? This seems to solve all the freedom bugs, right?

No, the patchset (thanks for the pointer, Sam) was rejected for Linux,
with a request to port it to the linux-firmware package, but it's not
there yet.

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