Re: linux-headers-2.6.33-2-amd64 (2.6.33-1~experimental.3) uninstallable
On Sun, Apr 11 2010, maximilian attems wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 10:13:15AM -0700, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>>
>> Seriously, I use nvidia non-free drivers as well. I can affirm
>> that I can pull from stable, or Linus' tree, and build kernel images
>> and nvidia modules. My usual sequence of action is to
>>
>
> yes indeed you lost *all* of my respect, when you were crying out
> about firmware issues in linux-2.6, did zero work on it,
> and then run an immense blob in ring 0.
You seem to mistake what Debian does, and what we support our
users doing. Debian should not ship binary blobs. But if users want to
do so, we support them.
> not happy that you are still doing although nouveau is shaping up.
> dude you are very inconsistent.
No, I am not inconsistent. I just distinguish between what we do
(no non-free) and what we let users do (we ack that users do need
non-free sutff, and we help users)
> BTW i saw no thank you from your side for the work that Ben did in
> linux-2.6, porting drivers to request_firmware, firmware relicensing.
> so until that any mail from you may be ignored.
While the kernel team has its current composition, you are
unlikely to see much help from me, no. The tone of the email I am
responding to is exemplar.
manoj
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