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Re: more evil firmwares found



On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 02:40:09PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> After the resolution of #239952 I started looking for other binary
> firmwares distributed by debian. If we follow the same policy the X and
> kernel maintainers will have to remove the 3D drivers for the Matrox and
> ATI Rage 128 and Radeon video cards.
> 
> The popular acenic ethernet driver will have to go as well.
> 
> See #242865 and #242866 for details.
> 
> I hope everybody will enjoy their firmware-clean kernels.
> 

	Hence the reason I gave up using the debian kernel-source
packages and just download the kernel source from kernel.org. I still
use make-kpkg to build a kernel-image deb that I install but I get the
kernel source that gives me the functionality I need for the hardware I
have.

	Regards,
	Jeremy

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