Sat, 10 Apr 2004
The crusade against firmwares
After the kernel package maintainer removed the popular acenic and tg3 ethernet drivers because they contain an embedded firmware, I looked at the kernel and xfree86 packages for other drivers containing a firmware dump.
The results are in #242865 and #242866, and if we will continue with this policy then the MGA, Rage 128 and Radeon DRM drivers will have to be removed. I wonder what users will think of a distribution which does not support 3D graphics.