On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 11:28:38AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Sven Luther wrote: > .. > > > > BTW, what is the thing that is reproached to those drivers ? That we don't > > have source to those firmware blobs ? Or that we don't have the right to > > modify them ? > > the firmware crusade is quite silly, > see some comment from upstream: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108239031230575&w=2 > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109341602728104&w=2
So, the hardware developer have to free the code, that's all. > i remember linus saying that loading firmware from userland is dump, > but i was not able to retrieve that post. Sure, so we will counsel people to buy hardware with known free drivers, what else is new ? Friendly, Sven Luther