kernel-libre (hopefully 100% Free) for Fedora 8 and rawhide

[Benjamin Kreuter]

On Saturday 22 March 2008 22:00:46 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>
> Thanks for stepping forward with this.
>
> Wouldn't it be better to change the spec file so that the firmware you
> have removed is moved into a sub package and we can retain the same
> kernel? The default setup will install both these packages and If you
> want a spin without the firmware, you just need to exclude the sub
> package (along with any other packages you don't want). The advantage is
> that it doesn't have the overhead of maintaining a additional kernel
> package.
>

How far along are we on automatic hardware detection?  Is it possible for 
anaconda to check a list of hardware that requires these addition drivers, 
and only install them as needed (possibly with a message?  That might scare 
new users though...)?  It wouldn't take more than a few extra lines of code 
in anaconda, since the number of entries in that list would number in the 
thousands, if even that much, and a simple linear search would be enough.  
This approached may be more amicable with our goal of being a free software 
system...

-- Ben



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