Re: Fedora 8 ideas

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Le jeudi 07 juin 2007 à 12:20 -0500, Arthur Pemberton a écrit :
> On 6/7/07, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Le Jeu 7 juin 2007 17:37, Jarod Wilson a écrit :
> > > Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > >> Goede, J.W.R. de (j.w.r.degoede@xxxxxx) said:
> >
> > >> What cards is this useful for that we don't ship firmware
> > >> for? Anything other than bcm43xx and ralink?
> > >
> > > A number of dvb and v4l devices also require firmware that we don't
> > > ship.
> >
> > And alsa devices
> >
> > But that's because historically we've never shipped firmware, not
> > because anyone looked hard recently and decided we could not ship
> > them.
> >
> > Please try to get the firmware in-distro before focusing on a download
> > helper.

> I have felt the pain of no firmware installed for an alsa device. 2-3
> hours wasted. It would have been nice if I at least knew firmware was
> needed.

Alsa is mostly a case of "someone needs to poke RH Legal to check the
alsa firmware dumps can be packaged (and if not go ask the hadrware
vendors for permission)"

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Ceci est une partie de message =?ISO-8859-1?Q?num=E9riquement?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_sign=E9e?=

-- 
fedora-devel-list mailing list
fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora Testing]     [Fedora Formulas]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kernel Development]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Desktop]     [PAM]     [Red Hat Development]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]
  Powered by Linux