On Wed, 1 Jun 2022 09:41:35 +0300, Hakan Bay?nd?r <ha...@bayindir.org> wrote: >As a person who's handling a lot of servers, I can tell that most high >performance hardware is running either load-on-boot (generally ethernet >and other network cards) or persistent (generally storage and RAID >contollers) non-free firmware blobs. > >First category can perform basic tasks without firmware, but servers >being servers, this low performance mode is undesirable barring >light-load servers which is both a minority and a contradiction to the >word server in my profession.
A machine that can boot and install debian without needing the firmware blob is already one step better than a machine that needs an install medium with firmware. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834
