Re: Proposal - Defer discussion about SC and firmware until after the Etchrelease

2006-09-21 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 12:50:36AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 12 September 2006 05:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > implementation of a solution for firmware/non-free drivers in d-i has > > > been discussed but consensus was that there was not much point in > > > working on it while the

Re: Proposal - Defer discussion about SC and firmware until after the Etchrelease

2006-09-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 05:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > implementation of a solution for firmware/non-free drivers in d-i has > > been discussed but consensus was that there was not much point in > > working on it while there was no separation in the kernel; > > This is half-true. > > It i

Re: Proposal - Defer discussion about SC and firmware until after the Etchrelease

2006-09-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 14 September 2006 13:05, Ron wrote: > > The Debian Project resolves that: > > > >(a) The inclusion in main of sourceless firmware and support in > > Debian Installer is not a release blocker for the release of Etch. > > I believe I would prefer to see this read: > > (a) The inc

Re: Proposal - Defer discussion about SC and firmware until after the Etchrelease

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Frederik Schueler wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 08:59:59PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> is to drop support (in whole or in part) for >> Broadcom NX2, Sun Cassini(+), Both nondistributable firmware anyway look, what list should this discussion be on? Can someone forward

Proposal - Defer discussion about SC and firmware until after the Etchrelease

2006-09-14 Thread Ron
Hi, > The Debian Project resolves that: > >(a) The inclusion in main of sourceless firmware and support in Debian >Installer is not a release blocker for the release of Etch. I believe I would prefer to see this read: (a) The inclusion in Linux kernel of ... See #386361 for on

Re: Proposal - Defer discussion about SC and firmware until after the Etchrelease

2006-09-12 Thread Frederik Schueler
Hello, On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 08:59:59PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > is to drop support (in whole or in part) for > Broadcom NX2, Sun Cassini(+), Intel PRO/100 (although some of those > chips are also supported by the unaffected eepro100 driver), eepro100 is scheduled for removal upstream

Re: Proposal - Defer discussion about SC and firmware until after the Etchrelease

2006-09-11 Thread ldoolitt
Thank you, Frans, for your thoughtful and informative post. I have a couple of questions/comments. > implementation of a solution for firmware/non-free drivers in d-i has > been discussed but consensus was that there was not much point in > working on it while there was no separation in the kernel