Re: Bug#991969: D-I: news for Bullseye: help with firmware installation
Paul Gevers wrote:
> Before pushing, I hope to see comments from Justin.
>
> Paul
> +<title>Help with installation of firmware</title>
> +<para>
> + More and more, peripheral devices require firmware to be loaded as
> + part of the hardware initialization. To help deal with this problem,
> + the installer has been improved. Based on a hardware ID to firmware
> + file mapping, if some of the installed hardware requires firmware
> + files to be installed, the code installs them automatically.
> +</para>
> +<para>
> + Please note, that this new functionality is restricted to the
Only one minor comment: I'd drop the comma in "note, that".
> + unofficial installer images with firmware included (see <ulink
> + url="&url-installer;#firmware_nonfree">&url-installer;#firmware_nonfree</ulink>).
> + The firmware is usually not DFSG compliant, so it is not possible to
> + distribute it in Debian's main repository.
> +</para>
> +<para>
> + If you experience problems related to (missing) firmware, you might
> + want to read <ulink
> + url="https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/ch06s04.en.html#completing-installed-system";>the
> + dedicated chapter of the installation-guide</ulink>.
> +</para>
> +</section>
(I'm surprised that we can't link to ch06s04.html without the .en and
have it automatically handle translations. Anyone know a way of doing
that?)
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
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