Raul Miller wrote:
Fundamentally, the DFSG is aimed at making sure that we can provide the
software that we can support. Restrictions that leave us writing an
opaque blob of bits which drives an unknown API very much put us into
a context where we can't know that we're doing the right thing.
The API is known, otherwise there would be no Linux driver. The fact that
we uploaded the firmware does not excuse the device from respecting its
API. Nor is it our task to write the firmware, Debian is a distribution for
general-purpose computers, if you want to have a distribution for firmware
you are free to do so. Debian should consider hardware as things that you
have to talk to with a certain protocol.
[hardware with build in flash that lost the flash]
However, unlike non-flash devices that need the firmware uploaded
every time, the driver is still useful without it.
Yes.
It is useful to re-upload the flash. Nothing else. So what is the
difference between this use and the driver that has to load it every time?
Groetjes, Peter
