Re: Let's vote ... (Was: kernel firmwares: GR proposal)

2006-09-21 Thread Sven Luther
Manoj, ... This issue remains, and it is still not solved. This has got the approval of Steve Langasek (who said that his proposal and this where orthogonal and a separate GR), of our DPL, who said he would postpone his own GR proposal for post etch, as well as the proposer of this GR. There also

Re: Let's vote ... (Was: kernel firmwares: GR proposal)

2006-09-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 10:56:58PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:03:14AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 12:11:08PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 05:54:25PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > We are quickly reaching the poi

Re: Let's vote ... (Was: kernel firmwares: GR proposal)

2006-09-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:03:14AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 12:11:08PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 05:54:25PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > We are quickly reaching the point where holding a vote on this issue and > > > still > > > maintainin

Re: Let's vote ... (Was: kernel firmwares: GR proposal)

2006-09-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 12:11:08PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 05:54:25PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > We are quickly reaching the point where holding a vote on this issue and > > still > > maintaining a timely etch release, so i believe that we should held a vote > > o

Re: Let's vote ... (Was: kernel firmwares: GR proposal)

2006-09-05 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 05:54:25PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > We are quickly reaching the point where holding a vote on this issue and still > maintaining a timely etch release, so i believe that we should held a vote on > this issue sooner rather than later. > This GR, which was seen by Steve as

Let's vote ... (Was: kernel firmwares: GR proposal)

2006-09-05 Thread Sven Luther
Hi all. We are quickly reaching the point where holding a vote on this issue and still maintaining a timely etch release, so i believe that we should held a vote on this issue sooner rather than later. This GR, which was seen by Steve as orthogonal to his GR, is about the etch release and not abo

kernel firmwares: GR proposal

2006-08-30 Thread Frederik Schueler
Overview: The Linux kernel source contains device drivers that ship with firmware files provided by the hardware manufacturer. They are uploaded during the driver initialization to the corresponding hardware device. Some of these binary image files are provided as a hexdump of register bank set