Re: Non-free firmware without asking the user

2017-01-08 Thread Donald Allen
This guy took Theo's advice to go elsewhere with this even before the advice was given. He's apparently appointed himself an anti-blob vigilante and has also landed on Alpine and Void Linux. I had an exchange with him on the Alpine forum and tried this: "Then I suggest that you think hard about

Re: Non-free firmware without asking the user

2017-01-08 Thread lists
Fri, 06 Jan 2017 22:45:47 +0100 Martin Hanson > Hi, > > I know that we cannot trust the hardware vendors and that all the > hardware is running firmware on ROMS, except some which are provided > be the kernel. Hi Martin, This means you either remove parts you don't

Re: Non-free firmware without asking the user

2017-01-08 Thread Martin Hanson
On Sun, 8 Jan 2017, Stefan Sperling wrote: >> The above policy applies to the base system code. >> It does not apply to ports and packages of third party software, i.e. >> anything >> listed by pkg_info. > Perhaps the whole only a misunderstanding of the original poster that > could have been

Re: Funding for Skylake support

2017-01-08 Thread Peter Membrey
Hi, I'd also be willing to put funds up front so that good test hardware can be purchased to do the development on. In that case I'd be looking for someone who has had previous success getting their code (ideally in graphics) accepted into the project. I'm also willing to put the funds into

Re: Non-free firmware without asking the user

2017-01-08 Thread Roderick
On Sun, 8 Jan 2017, Stefan Sperling wrote: The above policy applies to the base system code. It does not apply to ports and packages of third party software, i.e. anything listed by pkg_info. Perhaps the whole only a misunderstanding of the original poster that could have been clarified with

Re: Funding for Skylake support

2017-01-08 Thread Adam Van Ymeren
On 1/7/2017 3:19 PM, Peter Membrey wrote: Hi all, I've gotten OpenBSD up and running on a new Intel NUC, but unfortunately Skylake isn't supported. I was able to get X working in software accelerated mode, but it would be great to see true support for the chipset. Unfortunately I don't have

Re: KERNEL PANIC: HP 250 G5 Notebook PC (W4M67EA)

2017-01-08 Thread James Hastings
On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 03:32:22PM -0800, Mike Larkin wrote: > Also, this is the third time (that I recall) that HP has thrown us a curveball > in their ACPI implementation (although at least this time they seem to be > spec-compliant and it's us missing stuff). Toshiba is another vendor that >

Re: PC-Engines Wireless - PPPOE timeouts.

2017-01-08 Thread Tom
On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 20:57:25 + (UTC) Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2016-12-15, Tom wrote: > >> Thanks. I was wondering about a bug with LCP echoes I accidentally > >> introduced that made it into 5.9 (fixed for 6.0). > > could you please point me to

Re: Tor no longer works on -current ?

2017-01-08 Thread Olivier Antoine
On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 7:02 AM, Sebastien Marie wrote: > On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 03:26:01PM +1100, Joel Sing wrote: > > On Saturday 07 January 2017 21:14:29 Olivier Antoine wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Is it only me or Tor no longer works on -current ? > > > > I believe