I thought it might be useful to point out that the removal of the non-Free firmware present in the e100 driver doesn't have any effect on the (old) notebook I have that uses the e100 driver. Initially, when I first converted it to linux-libre, that didn't include that driver at all, enabling the eepro100 driver was enough to get it to work. Later on, linux-libre started replacing the blob with /*(DEBLOBBED)*/, making for an empty array of firmware code, and this cleaned-up e100 module worked just fine.
So don't assume that the removal of the firmware will have a negative impact on all e100-using hardware. If my experience counts, it will have zero impact. That said, I assume the firmware must be there for some reason, even if it's just to update in-flash firmware or so. Perhaps I just don't have hardware that depends on it. Who knows? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
