On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:50:23PM -0500, William Pitcock wrote:
> In the kernel itself, yes. Provided that:
>
> * the kernel framework for loading firmware is used for drivers
> depending on non-free firmware, and
> * that firmware is available in non-free via firmware-nonfree
What if the fi
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 06:46:14AM -0700, Jeff Carr wrote:
> I'm willing to stake my reputation on betting you are _not_ a firmware
> engineer. Your are totally wrong if you think all firmware blobs can
> be replaced by human readable source.
>
> There is hardware, for which to function, will alwa
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:29:58PM -0700, Jeff Carr wrote:
> Hardly perfectly readable - I put up code there too :)
Oh well. Some people write ugly perl code, some write ugly VHDL. Not
the language or tools fault, just bad programmers.
> Which is often not the case on cheap devices (often usb)
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