Re: [GNU-linux-libre] The "Free" Kernel In Debian Squeeze

[Richard Stallman]

    >     We compute the hash of "`uname -r`/foobar/blobname.fw", and ask the
    >     userland hotplug script for %x of that hash number.

    > This does not depend on any session ID.  It will only change if you
    > install a different version of Linux.

    Yeah, this particular variant doesn't.

    Other variants, using a kernel-supplied varying hash prefix (which could
    be exposed through some file named hashprefix within /sys) could.

What I don't understand is why you entertain the idea of doing so.  It
would be like our current approach in that it would be impossible to
put firmware in a file that would load.  So why not stick with the
current approach?

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