[Bug 107168] Allow to load firmware during run-time (after initialization)

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107168

--- Comment #2 from Paul Menzel <pmenzel+bugs.freedesktop at molgen.mpg.de> ---
(In reply to Alex Deucher from comment #1)
> You need the firmware for initialization.

What’s the technical reason for this. Why can’t certain parts of the hardware
be initialized later on?

> Even if the firmware were open source, it would still needs to be loaded so
> you'd still need firmware images.

Understood.

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