On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 16:43 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Mar 23, 2008, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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. > > That's not the reason why *I'm* doing this work. > > I wouldn't oppose if people patched the 100% Free kernel by > (re-)introducing stuff that depend on loading non-Free firmware, as > long as the firmware itself is not included in the 100% Free kernel > (not even its sources). > > I'm just not interested in doing this work myself. It's much simpler > for me to simply remove the offending code. Then I wouldn't expect what you're trying to do to go very far officially. If you aren't willing to compromise on the implementation to reach the same goal, then I doubt it would result in something that Fedora would want to pick up. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
