Frank -
> the ftpmasters and many others want to give those drives the
> benefit of doubt and assume that they aren't sourceless, but are, e.g.,
> just dumps of unnamed registers and therefore "the preferred form for
> modification". After all, they were what was given to the kernel people
> when
Manoj -
>Has anyone done a survey to see how many "do not modify" blobs
>we are talking about here?
Not counting files already removed in 2.6.17,
drivers/net/appletalk/cops_ffdrv.h use-only (2)
drivers/net/appletalk/cops_ltdrv.h use-only (2)
drivers/net/tg3.cr
Thank you, Frans, for your thoughtful and informative post.
I have a couple of questions/comments.
> implementation of a solution for firmware/non-free drivers in d-i has
> been discussed but consensus was that there was not much point in
> working on it while there was no separation in the kernel
Steve wrote:
> So if we are going to make an exception, I think we should take care to
> make the smallest exception necessary.
I hope everyone here can agree with that.
> If we don't *need* to grant exceptions
> for firmware based on their license, only on whether or not they include
> source,
Sven wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 10:35:50AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
> > * drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2100_fw.c
> > * drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2200_fw.c
> > * drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2300_fw.c
> > * drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2322_fw.c
> > * drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/ql2400_fw.c
>
> Are those
Sven wrote -
>I already did so, but let's try again :
>We consider for the purpose of this GR, firmware to be :
> [blah blah]
Hey, let's make it easy: let's approve shipping the same
firmware we shipped in sarge! I can list the 45 files
covered, so there's no ambiguity, no regression in hardware
Kurt Roeckx wrote in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/08/msg00205.htm
> I'm not sure about those 46 that already use request_firmware()
I see no reason to take them out. I listed them as a measure
of success, at least with recently added drivers.
> It would be interestig to know if any o
Hi -
Sorry I'm late for the party. I'm on travel, with less than
ideal 'net connections. Reading 147 messages on d-v over
a hotel's erratic wireless link was not fun.
Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/08/msg00117.html
> None of the trolls demanding the removal
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