Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem

2005-01-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 05:28:23PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 02:36:03AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > In the firmware case, the choice is rather different. At present, the > > choice is not between free firmware or non-free firmware. The choice is > > between non-fre

Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem

2005-01-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 07:37:22PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >True enough. I have a harder time justifying to myself keeping such drivers > >in main, but I also think that the infrastructure needed in order to support > >grabbing firmware out of non-free (for things

Re: documentation x executable code

2005-01-11 Thread Sam Couter
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 12:03:49PM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > Indeed. But not everyone agrees with your opinion that invariant sections > are trivialities. Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well, that just makes them wrong. and if they're obsessive about it, zealots. So your opin

Re: documentation x executable code

2005-01-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 07:14:55AM +1100, Sam Couter wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 12:03:49PM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > > Indeed. But not everyone agrees with your opinion that invariant sections > > are trivialities. > > Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > well, that just make