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To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: Re: SVNET Meeting? 
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Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 07:55:39 -0600
From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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> Only the firmware used by the ahc driver (a single generated .h file).

Which is enough according to the GPL.   :-P

How big is this firmware?
Can it be poked into the boot in a separate operation?
That would mean the kernel would have to use the BIOS to read it back,
wouldn't it?