On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:44:50PM -0000, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> After talking to James Bottomley, it seems this only applies to new
> firmware, which is broken on Linux anyways. The 'V17' firmware
> apparently works much better, and was submitted to the kernel under the
> GPL by Adaptec[1]. Would a firmware file extracted from the source code
> (the aic94xx driver, as submitted, only allows request_firmware) be
> acceptable, since it would be a derived work of the GPL driver, and
> thus, under the GPL itself?
> 
> I can commit the "GPL" firmware blob to ubuntu-2.6.git if you say this
> is alright.

The GPL explicitly grants permission to redistribute it, so I don't see a
problem here.

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 - mdz

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Adaptec SAS adp94xx not in initrd
https://launchpad.net/bugs/82382

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