Re: Some thoughts about firmware inclusion.

[Ian Chapman <packages amiga-hardware com>]

Hans de Goede wrote:

> I fully agree, this discussion does raise one interesting question 
> though: What if there is fully floss software, which we can build from 
> source. Which is written for another OS, but will run fine under an 
> emulator and is hard to port. Do we allow shipping this?

I don't see why not. There's already examples analagous to this in 
Fedora, for example the CBIOS firmware (ROMs if you prefer) for OpenMSX 
is compiled from z80 assembly source using sjasm in the RPM. The 
resulting binary blob is of course z80 code designed to run under the 
emulator.

--
Ian Chapman.