On 2010-03-29 03:36 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 18:43 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> Followed by the text of the actual license. Since Nvidia does not >> distribute the files themselves and their license only allows >> redistribution of unmodified files, it seems that if the files are >> copyrightable they are also undistributable, but I'm no legal expert. > > I think this is legally risky and ftpmaster will probably not allow it.
Yeah. I'll mention this problem in xserver-xorg-video-nouveau's README.Debian and include a script to download and install the firmware. >> An alternative to the nouveau-firmware package would be to backport >> Marcin KoĆcielnicki's ctxprogs generator that is included in 2.6.34. >> It generates the GPU initialization data on the fly, so no firmware is >> needed. > > Right, I think we may have to do that. Actually, that generator is only for NV50 cards (for NV40 cards there is already a generator in 2.6.33), which is what I have here. I don't know if there are any other supported cards which still need external firmware. Commit d5f3c90d4f3ad6b054f9855b7b69137b97bda131 is what you would need to cherry-pick. I applied this to the 2.6.33.1 kernel, and the result seems to work fine (I'm using it right now). This also gets rid of any MODULE_FIRMWARE stuff, making it possible to include nouveau.ko in the intitramfs without hitting #575241. :-) Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87aatrk8g4....@turtle.gmx.de