On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 17:10 -0400, Tom Callaway wrote: > On 10/24/2012 06:30 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > I don't want to sound too alarmist, but these laser-focused changes > > aimed at the Pi seem slightly worrying to me in the context of: > > > > http://airlied.livejournal.com/76383.html > > > > If the firmware is as useless and anti-F/OSS as Dave suggests, do we > > really want to be letting it in? Should we be drawing a distinction > > between the two kinds of firmware Dave identifies in his blog post? > > The firmware for the raspberrypi is necessary to boot anything on the > device. This is different from the videocore libs that were previously > proprietary but are now BSD. The videocore libs are kindof awful in all > the ways that David Airlie covers, but you can run Fedora on the > Raspberry Pi without them. You cannot even boot Fedora on the raspberry > pi without the firmware present on the SD card (and thus, part of the > "Fedora" image that we would distribute for that platform). > > At no point was I trying to extend the guidelines to support including > the proprietary videocore libs. Ah, thanks. Sorry, I didn't realize the distinction. No problems, then. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
