Re: more evil firmwares found

[Norbert Tretkowski <tretkowski@inittab.de>]

* John Hasler wrote:
> Norbert writes:
>> The firmware microcode is required to use some piece of hardware...
> 
> Microsoft Windows is required to use other pieces of hardware.

So what? That's hardware which was never supported by Linux.

> > I don't see the difference between distributing it through the
> > Linux kernel or having it directly on-board on that hardware.
> 
> Debian distributes the kernel.

Looks like Debian distributes a castrated version of the kernel in the
future.

Norbert