[ewg] shipping firmware with ofed

Steve Wise swise at opengridcomputing.com
Tue Mar 3 10:50:42 PST 2009


Todd Rimmer wrote:
> I have encountered many customers whose clusters are purposely not on the internet and hence could not perform a download.
>
> It would be best if the FW was included in the release.  I think there is precedence with other Linux drivers which have included binary images of ASIC FW without having to release the source code.
>
>   

Good point.

The ideal solution, IMO, is shipping binary firmware with OFED.




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