[ewg] shipping firmware with ofed

[Woodruff, Robert J]

Steve Wrote,

>I request that we do add this.  Forcing customers to download firmware
>isn't very user friendly.

>It should be fairly easy to do, yes?  I would take on the work involved
>to add the infrastructure needed...

>All that would be needed, I think, is to make a src rpm that allows
>generating an rpm that will install the firmware in /lib/firmware.  Each
>provider could manage their own.  Or we could have a "firmware" src rpm
>that holds all the providers' firmware images...

>Thoughts?

>Steve.


If people submit firmware to ofed, then would it have to be submitted
under the dual BSD/GPL license as agreed to in the OFA bylaws. If so,
then you would probably have to submit the firmware source code as well,
and I am not sure if you are willing to do that...

woody