Marco d'Itri wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Of course, there's shades of gray, here. If all the driver does is emit
a message CAN'T FIND NON-FREE FIRMWARE, ABORTING without the firmware,
it's hard to say that it doesn't depend on the firmware. But if the
This applies to almost every driver in the Linux kernel.
/usr/src/linux$ grep --directories=recurse -i -c firmware drivers/* |
grep -v :0$ | wc -l
452
/usr/src/linux$ grep --directories=recurse -i -c firmware drivers/* |
grep :0$ | wc -l
3242
Less than 14% of the driver source files in 2.4.26 even mention the word
'firmware'. Hardly 'almost every driver'.
> Are you ready to move most of the kernel to non-free too?
I couldn't swear to it, but aren't the few drivers that do need
firmwares being removed from the Debian kernel?
2.4.19 README.Debian:
>Non-free bits removed:
>
>* Keyspan firmware.
>* SMC Token Ring firmware, driver disabled.
>* ACENIC firwmare, driver disabled.
>* DGRS firmware, driver disabled.
>* DAB firmware, driver disabled.
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Lewis Jardine
IANAL IANADD
