Re: Any Bluetooth 5 adapter Debian compatible

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Curt wrote: 
> On 2020-01-05, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Most bluetooth adapters work when adding nonfree blobs to the mix.
> >
> 
> Not to belabor a trivial point, but I wondered whether "natively" (about
> whose definition I didn't really reflect when first reading the OP) is
> actually synonymous with free as opposed to nonfree in the Debian sense
> (though upon reading your post it seems likely that must've been what
> the OP meant by the word), or whether it doesn't in fact denote
> something entirely orthogonal to that concept.

I think of "natively" as meaning "supported in the standard
kernel". Some devices will still require a firmware blob, and 
of those, some will require an unfree firmware blob.

anything packaged under firmware-linux-free requires a blob but
the blob is free.

-dsr-