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Re: General resolution: non-free firmware



Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>Phil Morrell dixit:
>>> Is there support for something like A but not enabled by default?
>>> That is, you have to actively select a nÅ?n-default option
>>I don't believe so, because that doesn't solve the problem at hand. How
>>exactly do you select a non-default option if you cannot see or hear it?
>
>You see it in the bootloader, or if not, can append it manually to the
>kernel command line so that the initrd and d-i see it both. (Iâ??m willing
>to compromise on having early pre-initrd microcode updates always loaded
>which would be the one thing we could not easily toggle on/off from the
>initrd and/or d-i.)

Please go and *read* and *respond* in debian-vote. The discussion is
there, not here.

You've utterly missed Phil's point about people not seeing or hearing
boot options. Go and read my first mail in the thread for context.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
"We're the technical experts.  We were hired so that management could
 ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs."  -- Mike Andrews


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