On Mar 21, 2007, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 21.03.2007 07:47, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> What if Fedora were to split the non-Free firmware into a separate >> repository and separate bootable media [...] > My take: split firmware files into separate packages (the kernel > includes a lot currently IIRC) as a middle-term goal to make a > "firmware-less Fedora spin" easily possible. I was not talking about the firmware embedded in the kernel when I made the suggestion, I was talking about add-on firmware. That said, your suggestion is a good one in as much as it's doable. Unfortunately, in-kernel firmware is a far more difficult issue because the non-free firmware is not only in easily-separatable blobs that could be shipped separately, but rather embedded and disguised as source code. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
