Re: Firmware
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 12:10:26AM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote:
> Luk Claes wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > As probably many of you know, the most heard criticism from users and
> > press on Lenny's release is lost hardware support because of missing
> > firmware. Users and press are complaining that their servers don't have
> > network anymore after an upgrade or that their notebooks cannot be
> > installed via wireless...
> >
> > It's of course possible to load firmware from extra media during
> > installation or install the right package (from non-free) when booting
> > back to an older kernel (to have network again) to be able to use the
> > network with the new kernel...
> >
> > What do people think of a new vote regarding the status of firmware? One
> > of the options can probably be Peter Palfrader's proposal [1].
>
> I would rather like to keep binary firmware blobs outside of Debian/main
> and maintain them in Debian/non-free with improved and easy ways to load
> them during the installation.
I think this is less of a problem than making sure *existing*
installations don't break on upgrade because of the lack of some
firmware blobs after the upgrade.
Mike
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