On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 03:21:40AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote: > > I don't think I have a problem, conceptually, with a kernel package which > > provides drivers for 10,000 different types of hardware, and needs to load > > firmware from disk for 300 of them, being in main (without a > > Depends:/Recommends: relationship on the firmware-providing packages). > That doesn't quite solve the problem of drivers outside the main kernel > tree. This is the case for a large amount of current wireless hardware, > irritatingly. True enough. I have a harder time justifying to myself keeping such drivers in main, but I also think that the infrastructure needed in order to support grabbing firmware out of non-free (for things like the installer) could easily work for the case of contrib driver + non-free firmware as well. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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