Bug#129837: System Hardware Requirements misleading

[Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>]

tag 129837 pending
thanks

> Section 2.6.1 of the Installation Manual for i386 talks about 
> avoiding hardware for which the vendor refuses to provide 
> information that would allow drivers to be developed or released 
> under an open-source license.  The example given is "the IBM 
> laptop DSP sound system used in recent ThinkPad systems".  This 
> is now out-of-date information and to continue to cite it is 
> both misleading and does an injustice to IBM which has become a 
> significant supporter of Linux and Open Source in general.

Hello Mark, 

This was fixed in CVS a few days ago by Chris Tillman, and a new version
of install-doc will come with the official release of boot-floppies
3.0.19.

Thanks for the report!