Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

[Jape Person <japers@comcast.net>]

On 11/19/2016 11:31 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Nov 2016, Brian wrote:
> > > I'd like to know that, too.  I need a new home color printer, my
> > > 10-year-old HP PhotoSmart (blobless) MFP has finally broken down and
> > > good second-hand parts are not easy to find in Brazil :-(
> >
> > Why is it important for the printer to be blobless? Look at it this way:
>
> Are we talking about printer firmware, or host-cpu device drivers?
>
> All of your reply is only relevant for device firmware (runs in the
> device).  But I thought this was about a binary-only driver blob that
> runs in the host OS ?  Or did I misunderstand?
I'm pretty sure it's a host-cpu device driver.

http://hplipopensource.com/node/309

Yeah, if it ran only in the device, I'd be okay with it.