Joey Schulze <[email protected]> wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: > > It's of course possible to load firmware from extra media during > > installation or install the right package (from non-free) when booting > > back to an older kernel (to have network again) to be able to use the > > network with the new kernel... > > > > What do people think of a new vote regarding the status of firmware? One > > of the options can probably be Peter Palfrader's proposal [1]. > > I would rather like to keep binary firmware blobs outside of Debian/main > and maintain them in Debian/non-free with improved and easy ways to load > them during the installation.
I agree with the above. I think a lot of the criticism is more to do with the particular implementation making it unnecessarily difficult to load firmware (it took me three attempts I think - the documents weren't clear but I thought it was just me being dense) rather than the general principle. > We might require a new vote in order to release squeeze at some date. Amen. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
