Re: Atmel binary firmware

[dragoran <dragoran feuerpokemon de>]

Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> On 11/26/06, Tim Jackson <lists timj co uk> wrote:
> > Can anyone (spot?) confirm whether this:
> >
> > http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/license.txt
> >
> > is acceptable for FE? To my eyes it meets the "Binary Firmware" 
> > Guidelines.
>
> We allows binary only firmwares into Fedora? I overlooked that one :)
> So which of those points prevents us from having the wireless ipw
> firmwares in Extras?
was about to ask the same, intel allows it, but for the in kernel 
drivers the firmware should be in core so that the hw works out of the 
box (this is solved by fedora 7 does not have core/extras)