[Fwd: Re: Fedora free software?]

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:08:33AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
 > On 21.03.2007 07:47, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
 > 
 > > What if Fedora were to split the non-Free firmware into a separate
 > > repository and separate bootable media [...]
 > 
 > My take: split firmware files into separate packages (the kernel
 > includes a lot currently IIRC) as a middle-term goal to make a
 > "firmware-less Fedora spin" easily possible.

Convince upstream kernel.org to do it, and we'll follow.
We have far more important things to be working on with our
limited resources.  rewriting those drivers to use firmware loaders
isn't as trivial as it sounds.

	Dave

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