On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > What should Debian's strategy/policy wrt platform firmware be?
If there is anyone interested in this topic who is also going to DebConf14, please register a BoF on the topic. I would suggest making it architecture neutral since there will probably be people interested in coreboot on x86 there (myself included). I won't register such a BoF myself (but would probably attend), I don't have enough broad experience with multiple device classes, only with a couple of smartphones (gta02, galaxysmtd). Thanks to everyone who shared their thoughts, I agree with much of what has been said. What I'm getting here is that what to do with platform firmware is very user, device and architecture dependent and requires lots of testing and detailed knowledge. The question now is, what changes should we make to various bootloader packages and to the Debian installer. Probably the best place to start that discussion and work on it is at the BoF I suggested above. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6F4mCSYgZFZdYnbOH9YziZ2ptRGV4=hfokzdqaiq_n...@mail.gmail.com
