Re: Downloadable firmware and devices

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 04:03:26PM -0400, Gregg Levine wrote:
> Hello!
> Would someone please either correct this assertion, or more probably refute it?
> And it is "Devices such as serial to USB converters which support
> downloadable firmware normally need specialty tools to do that no
> longer need these tools under the 2.6 series of Kernels for Linux."

Where did you see that assertion?  I do not think it is true at all.

> I am planning a series of projects concerning the Keyspan series of
> devices and naturally I am looking to see if this original idea is now
> a part of Linux's glorious past. For examples please see this webpage
> that concern doing that, but not the physical side of how to do that,
> http://www.hhhh.org/wiml/proj/keyspan.html and the disturbing thing is
> that the code he describes for doing that is more emendable to the
> other areas of FOSS not Linux.

You can put whatever firmware you want into these devices, but
"normally" the default firmware will be downloaded to the device
automatically.  Try it out yourself to see :)

thanks,

greg k-h

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