Indeed, I have built the firmware for a usb-serial adaptor. The firmware is free and the assembly source code is in the kernel tree under a free license. But as it is not built, having the binary in the tree as well, the result was that for almost 10 years (F###-Yeah !!) the binary did not correspond to the actual source. There was 1 byte with a different value in the binary, which renders the firmware useless as it wond operate not even close to correctly at all.
That's why firmware should be built from source. Felipe Sanches On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 2:34 AM, John Sullivan wrote: > > > the general project of getting more firmware released as free software. > > A related thing would be for Debian to build our existing free > firmware from source instead of shipping existing binaries like we do > now. > > -- > bye, > pabs > > https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise > > _______________________________________________ > Fsf-collab-discuss mailing list > Fsf-collab-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fsf-collab-discuss >
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