Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 03:28:43PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Craig Sanders wrote:
> > this affects even DFSG-free drivers with DFSG-free patches. you often can't
> > apply the patches to the debianised kernel sources because the context that
> > the patch needs is missing.
> >
> > e.g. try downloading the patch[1] for DVICO Fusion DVB-T card's DFSG-free
> > driver and applying it to the kernel source from any kernel-source-x.x.x
> > package. it won't apply to the debian kernel, yet it applies without a
> > problem to pristine sources downloaded from kernel.org.
> >
> > [1] http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~chrisp/Linux-DVB/DVICO/
> >
> > is this driver non-free? no.
> >
> > does this driver contain firmware blobs? no.
>
> Why has it been removed?
that's what i'm asking.
no good reason, AFAICT.
....
on second thoughts, i think you might have misunderstood what i wrote. the
dvico driver itself has not been removed. it wasn't in the kernel to begin
with. it is distributed as a patch against the kernel (and will eventually
make its way into the mainline kernel....but for now, much v4l stuff lives
outside the kernel in patches and in the v4l CVS. if you want to use this
card, you have to patch the kernel).
what has been removed is other stuff which provided the context for applying
the patch. the patch applies cleanly to the kernel.org 2.6.9 kernel, but does
not apply to debian's 2.6.9.
craig
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craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au> (part time cyborg)
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