On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 12:17:05AM -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote: > Do you think it would be tolerable to exclude non-free firmware images > from the kernel binary and modules themselves but to permit loading > them from the initrd or the root filesystem? I. e., treat the > firmware download function of a driver as more or less incidental, put > the non-free firmware in non-free where it belongs, and not force > drivers to bounce back and forth between main and contrib depending on > whether there happens to be a working-firmware-in-flash version of the > hardware they support on the market at a given time?
Once the hardware's out there, it's out there--I don't think the case of "all devices with firmware in flash have been tracked down and destroyed, so we have to move this driver back to contrib" is a serious worry. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
