On Tue, 2022-04-19 at 01:27 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > There are a number of issues here that make developers and users unhappy: There are a couple more issues related to unredistributable firmware: Some firmware is only available in the operating system preinstalled on the device and needs to be manually extracted before d-i is run, potentially even only from processes running on the preinstalled operating system in cases where the storage must be wiped (such as Android devices) before an alternative OS like Debian can be installed. IIRC there is some laptop WiFi firmware that is like this. Some firmware is not redistributable and is only available in proprietary drivers on websites and is hard to extract from those drivers. IIRC some of the proprietary nvidia firmware for use by the libre nouveau GPU driver is like this, both signed firmware for very new nvidia hardware and unsigned firmware for very old nvidia hardware, although the firmware for the old nvidia hardware has libre firmware in nouveau, but the libre firmware is/was buggier than the proprietary firmware. The tools for extracting the old firmware aren't in Debian. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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