Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 03 Aug 2006 12:14:57 -0700 | From | Zachary Amsden <> | Subject | Re: A proposal - binary |
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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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