Re: Building free firmware
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:42:26PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Some firmware used with Linux drivers has source included or otherwise
> available under a DFSG-free licence.
>
> The examples I am aware of are:
> - av7110 (http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/Boot.S)
> - dsp56k (firmware/dsp56k/bootstrap.asm)
> - keyspan_pda (keyspan_pda/*.S)
>
> The firmware blobs surely don't belong in firmware-nonfree, so we could
> either create a new firmware-free or include them in linux-image
> packages The latter option will obviously result in large numbers of
> duplicates, though so far the blobs in question are quite small.
>
> Thoughts?
firmware-free package for them sounds good.
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