Re: Why does Debian distributed firmware not need to be Depends: upon? [was Re: LCC and blobs]
Lars Wirzenius writes:
> su, 2005-01-09 kello 16:52 +0100, Miguel Gea Milvaques kirjoitti:
> > Then if software as xpdf could be in main, software loading firmware
> > must be in main.
>
> Without commenting on the issue otherwise: This is not a working
> analogy. xpdf can load any PDF file. Device drivers can, typically, only
> load firmwares that are specific to the device in question, and the only
> existing firmwares for the devices tend to be non-free.
Device drivers can, typically, send whatever they please to a device.
Whether the device accepts the data (or does anything useful with it)
is a question for the hardware designer, not for the OS.
Michael Poole
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