Hakan Bayındır dijo [Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 09:21:07PM +0300]: > A further evolution of this idea might be adding another question to > Debian Installer regarding to non-free software. > > If the users choose “No” for enabling non-free repositories, another > question might ask “Your system seems to need some firmware packages > to operate correctly, do you want to enable only the firmware > packages, but not the other non-free software?” > > Normally, the installer asks for “firmware.zip” file if it can’t > continue, but it’s already noted that making it work is very very > hard (I only succeeded once in my 15 years of Debian use). Maybe > making this process easier helps?
And this still does not get us all the way there -- There are many computers that can run Debian that won't even try to boot in the absence of a non-free firmware on the boot media. Yes, I'm one of the maintainers for raspi-firmware... :-/
