Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Thomas Sniffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> >>Huh? If a driver requires a firmware blob be copied from a driver CD, >> > Please repeat after me: "drivers do not require firmwares, hardware >> > devices require firmwares". >> >> And the driver requires a functioning hardware device. Thus, the >> loadable firmware is in the dependency tree of the software Debian >> ships. > > There are two slight problems with your argument here: > > (1) You wrote "a functioning hardware device", i.e. not necessarily > the particular device that requires the particular firmware.
Wha? Yes, of course, the Foobozinator driver presumably requires a functioning Foobozinator, and will not work no matter how many functioning Quxulators you have plugged in. > (2) If a driver requires "a functioning hardware device", then > presumably Debian can't ship the driver in main because Debian doesn't > include any hardware devices in any part of its distribution! Debian only expresses dependencies on software. This is known. -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
