Re: Bug#239952: kernel-source-2.6.4: qla2xxx contains non-free firmware
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 02:50:15PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
>> > And more and more users will just ignore the official kernel package,
>> > because it will not support modern hardware.
>> Noooo... all the brand-new hardware on my newest machine is supported
>> without firmware updates.
>
> Really? You'd be surprised how much hardware requires firmware updates
> to work. What hardware do you have in that box?
Pentium IV, e1000 ethernet card, ICH5 PCI bus/SATA, SATA and IDE hard
drives, USB bus, IDE CD-RW, IDE DVD-ROM, Radeon video card, LCD monitor.
I could be wrong, but I don't see any firmware updates in any of those
drivers; if there are any, they certainly aren't binary blobs.
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