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SubjectRe: A proposal - binary
Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:08:04AM -0700, Zachary Amsden wrote:
>
>> Perhaps we can use this to encourage open sourced firmware layers,
>> instead of trying to ban drivers which rely on firmware from the
>> kernel.
>>
>
> No one is trying to ban such drivers. Well, except the odd people on
> debian-legal, but all the kernel developers know to ignore them :)
>

That is good to know. But there is a kernel option which doesn't make
much sense in that case:

[*] Select only drivers that don't need compile-time external firmware


Zach

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