"Marco d'Itri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [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. >>Less than 14% of the driver source files in 2.4.26 even mention the word >>'firmware'. Hardly 'almost every driver'. > You obviously missed the point. Almost every driver talks to a device > which needs some kind of firmware, but you obviously noticed the ones > which do not have it on a non-volatile medium. > Why should debian adopt a different policy if the vendor provides this > firmware on a CD instead of on a flash EEPROM chip?
Because of the reasonable expectation that the user already has the EEPROM chip, and it's part of the hardware. It's not something Debian could ship or will. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
