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

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

Steven Robbins wrote:
>
>Luca Boccassi wrote:
>
>> Personally, I'd even go for option 4, so that other drivers are covered
>> too (the general advice that can be found on the internet for users
>> with nvidia hardware seems to be: "avoid Debian, go Ubuntu/Mint/etc",
>> which is just a sad state of affairs). But option 5 is already a great
>> improvement upon the status quo.
>
>Agree!  
>
>The original post did mention video cards, but I'm left unsure whether the 
>non-free stuff in the NVidia case, for example, would fall into "firmware" 
>(hence included) or "drivers".  If the latter, my sense is that Option 5 was 
>intended to be narrowly focused and exclude such drivers.  I'd rather support 
>a wider focus that would include drivers -- basically any "non-free hardware 
>support package".  So if Option 5 is narrow and Option 4 is wide-open "non-
>free" maybe there's room for an option in between?

I have no desire to add a wider set of packages from non-free onto our
media, I'm afraid. I'm entirely focused on firmware and **not**
drivers. As and when we start to draft a GR to formalise what the
project wants, feel free to add an option for that too but I
personally wouldn't expect it to gain much traction.

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