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Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem



Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 03:22:45PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > The larger problem is to identify non-free blobs in the main kernel,
> > extract them into non-free and modify the driver so that it is able
> > to load the blob from a user provided location; and include this in
> > our installer.
> 
> Isn't this being done upstream, anyway, for GPL-compatibility purposes?

It should...

Some people complained that Debian strips non-free blobs from the
kernel and that we have lost honor by doing this.  This implies to
me that it is not done upstream.

Regards,

	Joey

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