On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 01:57:08 -0600, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Software that resides on disk, however, lives on our side of > the divide; the kernel, and the filesystem drivers are required to > mediate delivery of this non-free payload to the system, and it can't > just be considered, in my opinion, just part of the hardware platform > on which Debian runs (albeit a part of the platform that is > software).
Do you think it would be tolerable to exclude non-free firmware images from the kernel binary and modules themselves but to permit loading them from the initrd or the root filesystem? I. e., treat the firmware download function of a driver as more or less incidental, put the non-free firmware in non-free where it belongs, and not force drivers to bounce back and forth between main and contrib depending on whether there happens to be a working-firmware-in-flash version of the hardware they support on the market at a given time? Cheers, - Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
