Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

Hey Ansgar!

Ansgar wrote:
>On Wed, 2022-04-20 at 17:11 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> > Russ Allbery wrote:
>> > 1. Purely free installation.
>[ Other options ]
>> > 4. Enable non-free firmware and enable normal upgrades, [...]
>[...]
>> Now, the *default* is going to be the hard choice for us to make.
>
>Do you think the choice for the default should be part of a GR too, a
>separate GR or decided some other way?

Thanks! That's a really good question, and one that we should also
include on the GR. I'd split my option 5 into two:

5. Include non-free firmware but do not enable it by default
6. Include non-free firmware and enable it by default

In either case, we'd make the opposite choice available via a d-i kernel
command line option and a boot menu option. I think that makes sense?

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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