[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>Of course, there's shades of gray, here. If all the driver does is emit >>>a message CAN'T FIND NON-FREE FIRMWARE, ABORTING without the firmware, >>>it's hard to say that it doesn't depend on the firmware. But if the >> This applies to almost every driver in the Linux kernel. >Less than 14% of the driver source files in 2.4.26 even mention the word >'firmware'. Hardly 'almost every driver'. You obviously missed the point. Almost every driver talks to a device which needs some kind of firmware, but you obviously noticed the ones which do not have it on a non-volatile medium. Why should debian adopt a different policy if the vendor provides this firmware on a CD instead of on a flash EEPROM chip?
-- ciao, Marco
