On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:58:11PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > Em Mon, 8 Mar 2004 14:42:01 +0100, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > > > like the opensparc one for example. There is also a free hardware > > community out there, as well as free firmware people, but these are > > areas debian as whole, and the non-free proponent in particular, have > > largely been ignoring. > > Indeed. We have been ignoring this kind of thing, but I would not say > we should drop the 'remove non-free' thing just because we are not > giving enough attention to free hardware. We should, instead, start > trying to have the project get into contact with them and to stabilish > some relationship with such projects to have free hardware used as > test buildd's, for example, to help them debug stuff (I'm totally clueless > on hardware stuff -- I have no idea if I'm talking shit here, but I guess > you can get the point).
I guess they run fine on emulation, but i doubt that will survive to be used as an auto builder. The main problem is that building hardware cost truckloads of money. > That's a good thing for our next DPL to do: try to bring Debian closer > to free hardware initiatives. This was already a theme of past elections i think. Nothing happened though. Friendly, Sven Luther
