Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 12/10/08 16:10, Celejar wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:05:26 -0600
> "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@volumehost.net> wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday 2008 December 10 15:15:56 lee wrote:
> > > what's the difference between a standard kernel and a kernel that
> > > comes as a Debian package?
> > The Debian kernel has some non-free (as in: source not available) parts 
> > removed.  There are also Debian-specific patches added.
>
> The vanilla kernel has non-free stuff in it?  I thought it's all GPL.

Some drivers have firmware blobs encoded in them as really long byte 
arrays.  They are de jure GPL, but, practically, are closed source.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
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