Re: Some binary blobs in kfreebsd-7.2

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Re: Some binary blobs in kfreebsd-7.2

jamego1...@andaluciajunta.es dixit: >If the binary blobs of Linux kernel was excluded from main, >Would those blobs in FreeBSD kernel be a DFSG violation? Depends if it’s a “program” (DFSG #2 – I disagree for firmware that does *not* run on the host CPU but on, say, a NIC) and whether it comes wi

Some binary blobs in kfreebsd-7.2

Hi, I noticed that in the kernel there are some binary blobs as those files: src/sys/dev/ral/rt2661_ucode.h src/sys/dev/usb/rt2573_ucode.h src/sys/dev/drm/mga_ucode.h src/sys/dev/drm/r600_microcode.h src/sys/dev/drm/radeon_microcode.h src/sys/dev/fatm/firmware.h src/sys/dev/txp/3c990img.h src/sys