Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem

[Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT>]

vorlon@debian.org wrote:

>> No, because in many situations the users would only need to copy the
>> firmware binary from media they already have, and installing a package
>> from a different archive (and even more a new udeb) requires more work
>> for them and for us.
>I imagine this firmware blob needs to be extracted outside of the installer,
>and made available on a floppy.  Is adding step 3, grab the small udeb file
>misc-driver-foo.udeb from http://... and copy it to the floppy next to the
>firmware, that much more work from the user's POV?
Yes, as I explained I consider it would be more work and doing this
would not help promoting free software.

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ciao,
Marco