Op Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:48:19 +0100 schreef Marek Buras <[email protected]>:
I believe you're talking about bug #37522? > I also tried to check all patches with deblob-check script. It > produced a list of 155 patches that contains code related to loading > firmware from external files. They are not harmful in my opinion, > since there are no blobs in gNS, but I think it's good idea to look > at them just to be sure. If you are interested I can put the list > somewhere with my comments included (I looked at some patches already > but didn't have the time to go through all). The request_firmware call tells the user which (potentially non-free) firmware file Linux wants. That encourages users to go look for that file and install it. The "/* DEBLOBBED */" solution is far from ideal, but we assume that gNewSense users don't want to run non-free firmware anyway, so being explicit about it and making it hard is better than encouragement. The Linux-libre maintainer and Richard Stallman have discussed [1] how to improve firmware handling, but as far as I know those suggestions have not been implemented yet. [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2010-12/msg00033.html _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
