On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 11:32:47AM -0400, Kent Watsen wrote:
> There is a discussion on the osol-discuss mailing list this morning where
> it's pointed out that OpenBSD source tree has a blob in it:
>
> http://osdir.com/ml/opensolaris-discuss/2010-05/msg00095.html
>
> The location of the blob in the tree is here:
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/microcode/afb/microcode.h?rev=1.1;content-type=text%2Fplain
>
> A posting from Alan Coopersmith from last December:
>
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/x-packagers/2009-December/000091.html
>
> The only "official" OpenBSD position statement I could find is on the 3.9
> lyrics page:
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#39
>
> Where it says " OpenBSD remains blob-free" - not true?
Blobs that run on hardware like PCI cards != blobs that run on the same
processor as the kernel.
-Otto
