On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 12:10 PM Paul Wise <[email protected]> wrote: > > Project Ortega is the libre firmware for the BCM5719. Update through fwupd > > Personally I very much dislike fwupd/LVFS as a place to distribute > firmware from, since it is designed for proprietary vendor firmware.
and critically relies on an internet connection. > I think libre firmware should be in Debian just like libre software. the whole purpose of debian is that files are GPG-signed with a trusted chain. once a debian distro is downloaded and verified you even *no longer require internet*. some random s*** off the internet (npm, cargo, fwupd, pip3) is dangerous, non-reproduceable and fragile. l.
