[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz] > The issue is not a technical one, it's a license issue. We can't > really ship or install non-free firmware graphics with a free > installer at the moment. If we just add such a mechanism to > debian-installer, we are overriding the strict separation of free and > non-free installer images that Debian has stuck to for years and I > don' think this is something that should be done without careful > consideration.
Debian should definitely not install non-free blobs without asking and warning the user during installation, similar to how there is an option/question during installation asking if contrib and non-free should be enabled. The first step is in any case to let the person installing that there are non-free firmware blobs for the hardware and let the admin aware that some of the hardware is non-free in this regard. When that is said, I updated the isenkram package in unstable yesterday, and part of the update was updating the mapping between known firmware files and packages used by isenkram-autoinstall-firmware with several new files in firmware-amd-graphcs. One renoir_ta blob and several sienna_cichlid_* blobs. Still no mapping from PCI id to package, thought. Perhaps it now make a better job with your card after the kernel module tried to load? -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen
