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Packagaing nouveau firmware



On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 10:51 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2010-03-24 19:38 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 
> > The general conditions for the bug are:
> > 1. Module is manually loaded using /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
> > 2. Module needs to load firmware
> 
> Thanks for the explanation.  Speaking of the firmware, is anyone working
> on packaging it?  Ubuntu has a package¹ in multiverse which works fine
> for me and could be used as a base, although it should probably named
> firmware-nouveau for consistency.
[...]

I'll have a look at that.  I heard there were some concerns about
licencing a while back, as they were apparently large blobs extracted
from the Nvidia drivers and might be copyrightable.  Do you know what
happened about that?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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