Faidon Liambotis wrote: > Robert Edmonds wrote: > > Any modification to the tg3 driver to produce a GR 2006-004 compliant > > driver would have to diverge from the kernel team's patch acceptance > > guidelines[0] since upstream is intransigent[1] on making tg3 > > firmware-free or firmware-optional. The kernel team does not appear to > > be interested in maintaining such a driver, and it appears future linux > > kernel source packages will be patched[2] to simply remove the blobs of > > firmware (I don't know why the driver isn't simply removed entirely > > since the result does not compile). > This seems totally inappropriate. > > If the driver includes non-free firmwares these should be removed or > split up from the driver source, not remove the driver entirely. > If what you say is right, the driver *works* for most of the hardware > without non-free blobs. > Therefore, I can't understand how removing the driver serves our users. That is why I said "appear", since I hope that the kernel team has plans for the driver beyond simply eliding it. (I'd like to point out that the equivalent FreeBSD if_bge driver has no firmware blobs.) > Any rationale behind that decision? > I feel like I'm arguing for something completely obvious... The only rationale for removing the *firmware* is compliance with GR 2006-004... -- Robert Edmonds edmonds@debian.org
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