2011/9/22 Arno Töll <deb...@toell.net>: > Accomplishing our social contract, the FreeBSD kernel is being stripped of > non-free parts [1][2] and #594940. However the social contract also says "We > acknowledge > that some of our users require the use of works that do not conform to the > Debian Free Software Guidelines" [3]. In that spirit there should at least be > the > /possibility/ to use non-free bits on Debian systems.
Nobody's arguing against it, but still someone has to do the work. > The FreeBSD kernel supports [4] loadable firmware, but support for this is not > included in kfreebsd currently, as far as I can tell. See also #594940 for > more > discussion on that. Please provide a mechanism to make kfreebsd .. er .. > usable > for some users. Why not just package the non-free modules in their current state? This is quite easy now that we have DKMS and a sample package that builds kernel modules (fuse4bsd-dkms). > n.b.: This bug is filed against kfreebsd-8, but affects -9 in experimental > equally which is built from a different source package. An advantage of using DKMS is that both branches can be supported by a single source (although this might require a few trivial adjustments). -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
