Bug#517627: linux-image-2.6.26-1-parisc64-smp: Acenic driver without firmware triggers HPMC

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:10:29PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 01:48 +0100, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> > Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-parisc64-smp
> > Version: 2.6.26-13
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > Acenic driver is provided without firmware. When it's being loaded at
> > boot time, it starts complaining that it can't find a firmware to
> > load. Boot progreses for a little while and eventually when setting up
> > networking, the box goes kaboom. Yay.
> 
> Can you be more specific?
> 
> Meanwhile, I should see about adding the firmware to firmware-nonfree.

This doesn't seem to have happened yet, did the firmware turn out to
be non-distributable?

Cheers,
        Moritz