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Re: non-free firmware: driver in main or contrib?



"Marco d'Itri" <md@Linux.IT> writes:

> glenn@zewt.org wrote:
>
>>Huh?  If a driver requires a firmware blob be copied from a driver CD,
> Please repeat after me: "drivers do not require firmwares, hardware
> devices require firmwares".

And the driver requires a functioning hardware device.  Thus, the
loadable firmware is in the dependency tree of the software Debian
ships.

-Brian

-- 
Brian Sniffen                                       bts@alum.mit.edu



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