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And people aren't listening. Have you thought about _why_?
The thing is, it should just work. Even without pre-loading.
Don't be silly. We solved it. The firmware has to be loadable from
somewhere else, since otherwise his IDE card wouldn't have been accessible
in the first place!
So all your arguments are just bogus crap.
Linus
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