"Marco d'Itri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Heck, for all I know there's a device out there where the "firmware on >>disk" is verilog code, and it's compiled by the driver and loaded to >>an FPGA on the device. >> >>Surely that's software. > I'm not so sure that an FPGA design is software (for sane definitions of > software).
Then there's no point continuing this conversation. An FPGA design, living as a file on disk and possibly even shipped by Debian is clearly software under Debian's definitions. Runtime-loaded firmware is clearly software for the same reasons. If you don't believe one, it's no surprise you won't believe the other -- but since Debian clearly disagrees with you on one, it's no surprise you're in disagreement on the other. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
