On Apr 19, Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> wrote:

> What would I choose to do? My personal preference would be to go with option 
> 5:
> split the non-free firmware into a special new component and include that on
> official media.
I agree, and actually I have been supporting this position for 20 
years (time flies!).

Just a note: on board wired Ethernet adapters used in popular servers 
from many vendors have needed the tg3 or bnx/bnx2 firmwares to work for 
quite a long time, so I do not think that the situation has "recently" 
worsened.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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