kernel-libre (hopefully 100% Free) for Fedora 8 and rawhide
David Woodhouse
dwmw2 at infradead.org
Sun Mar 23 09:16:58 UTC 2008
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 01:42 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > I can understand moving firmware loading to userspace a lot of the
> > time,
>
> That's not what this is about. Moving firmware loading anywhere won't
> make the firmware non-Free, it would just paper over the issue.
I disagree. For _Fedora_, that's precisely what this should be about.
So that we can ship a single, free, kernel and ship (or not) the binary
blobs separately as we see fit. Using the non-free firmware should be as
simple as installing the extra package which contains it, without having
to change kernels. The normal Fedora spin would include it; yours would
not.
We don't want local hacks to kernels which aren't even _pretending_ to
be mergeable upstream.
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dwmw2
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