On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 10:11 +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:42:26PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Some firmware used with Linux drivers has source included or otherwise > > available under a DFSG-free licence. > > > > The examples I am aware of are: > > - av7110 (http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/Boot.S) > > - dsp56k (firmware/dsp56k/bootstrap.asm) > > - keyspan_pda (keyspan_pda/*.S) > > > > The firmware blobs surely don't belong in firmware-nonfree, so we could > > either create a new firmware-free or include them in linux-image > > packages The latter option will obviously result in large numbers of > > duplicates, though so far the blobs in question are quite small. > > > > Thoughts? > > firmware-free package for them sounds good.
A package called firmware-linux-free will now be built from linux-2.6. No configuration file is needed for building and installing firmware, so I didn't have to struggle too much to build it as an arch:all package. I renamed firmware-linux to firmware-linux-nonfree and made firmware-linux a metapackage that depends on both the above. Bastian may wish to review the metapackage support I added to gencontrol.py in firmware-nonfree. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home. - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, `Good Omens'
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