Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> I don't think I have a problem, conceptually, with a kernel package which
> provides drivers for 10,000 different types of hardware, and needs to load
> firmware from disk for 300 of them, being in main (without a
> Depends:/Recommends: relationship on the firmware-providing packages).
That doesn't quite solve the problem of drivers outside the main kernel
tree. This is the case for a large amount of current wireless hardware,
irritatingly.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.project@srcf.ucam.org
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