Josselin Mouette writes: > Le dimanche 19 février 2006 à 00:30 +0100, Hendrik Sattler a écrit : > > So let me make it more precise: only source for something that can actually > > be > > compiled and runs on a system's host CPU. > > Me just doesn't get the rationale behind differing between firmware in a > > PROM > > and firmware that the driver loads into the hardware. There is none. > > I wonder why all people go on trying to build up tons of different > fallacious reasonings to keep firmwares in main. Non-free is here for a > reason, we just have to use it. Technical solutions to have the driver > in the kernel or in contrib, and the firmware in non-free, exist.
Sure. The unfortunate side effect is that some reasonable fraction of people who would use those drivers cannot install from install media that contain only Debian. They require bits of non-free. As is often pointed out, Debian has chosen (twice) to make life hard for those users. I guess the preferred solution for them is to just use some other distribution. Michael Poole