Sam Geeraerts <[email protected]> writes: > I believe you're talking about bug #37522? >
Yes, that's it. I should start separate thread for that. I'll do with my next message when I make more progress on the issue. > 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 > Have to look at that thread, because I don't remember the details. You are right about the request_firmware - that's what it does in the patches I've looked at. Is modifying patched Debian sources for the kernel good idea at all or should we use linux-libre-2.6.32 and then apply some critical patches to it? I'm open to your suggestions - both solutions I mentioned look like a lot of work, but I think I can go for it in my free time. Have to look at deblob-2.6.32 too - I'll try this evening. Happy hacking! -- Marek Buras cyfr0n (at) go2.pl _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
