Re: Getting Intel Cedarview drivers into Debian
On 12/21/2012 09:23 PM, Mikko Rasa wrote:
> Hi Debian developers,
>
> I'm working as a consultant on a project to develop drivers for the
> PowerVR graphics processor in the Cedarview family of Intel Atom
> microprocessors in a Debian environment. The current target is
> Wheezy, and Intel wishes to get the drivers into the official
> distribution.
>
> What they've failed to take into account is that Wheezy is currently
> frozen in preparation of release, so I'm more than a bit skeptical of
> getting a new package in (I was only brought in to the project very
> recently). However, I promised to ask you about this, so here we go.
>
> It should be noted that due to licensing issues, the driver will be
> closed source. The kernel component is under the GPL, so a dkms
> package will be made.
I'm surprised. Wasn't Intel committed to support Opensource for all if
their drivers? Are they changing their policy? If so, that's quite bad,
since both ATI and Nvidia have been annoying all the community,
insisting with non-free drivers. If we're stuck with no alternative,
with Intel also going closed source, what type of hardware can we buy
then? :(
Thomas
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