On Mar 23, 2008, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 16:43 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> 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. > That's fine. But off-topic for this list. I'm not sure what you're referring to. Can you please be more specific, and cite what is violating list topic and why? I don't know that plans to change kernels upstream are on topic here, but it's definitely not something I've suggested myself. What I'm talking about is perhaps adding a new package to Fedora, and one that is Free Software and is in line with Fedora's stated goals. If that's not on-topic here, where is it? -- 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-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
