Curt wrote: > On 2020-01-05, Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Most bluetooth adapters work when adding nonfree blobs to the mix. > > > > Not to belabor a trivial point, but I wondered whether "natively" (about > whose definition I didn't really reflect when first reading the OP) is > actually synonymous with free as opposed to nonfree in the Debian sense > (though upon reading your post it seems likely that must've been what > the OP meant by the word), or whether it doesn't in fact denote > something entirely orthogonal to that concept.
I think of "natively" as meaning "supported in the standard kernel". Some devices will still require a firmware blob, and of those, some will require an unfree firmware blob. anything packaged under firmware-linux-free requires a blob but the blob is free. -dsr-
