On Mar 25, 2008, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 02:18:01PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> > And neglecting to remove plenty of other firmware. >> Examples are welcome. > I gave one below.. Not part of the kernel AFAIK, which makes it irrelevant for this kernel-libre project. But it is indeed a problem, I don't deny it. >> And people don't take it up to Intel that they shipped a defective >> product? > I challenge you to find a single microprocessor that has ever shipped > without errata. Point being? How does this ethically justify Intel's denying its customers the ability to make independent changes and fixes to the microprocessors they purchased from Intel? >> Or are you volunteering to take over these efforts? :-) > Are you volunteering to prefilter all the incoming kernel bugs > to triage the bugs affected by your alternative ? I have no idea of the workload involved. -- 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
