From: Bernhard Reiter (bernhard@intevation.de)
Date: Wed Apr 14 2004 - 11:57:57 CEST
It seems that despite the search
our current version of Freie Software Knoppix still
has the binary driver kernel issue.
Debian is also battling it, some overview news in
http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2004/15/
Binary Firmware Components removed. After the kernel package
maintainer has [57]removed the acenic and tg3 ethernet drivers because
they contain an embedded firmware blobs, Marco d'Itri [58]investigated
the Linux kernel and [59]XFree86 packages for [60]other [61]drivers
containing a firmware dump. He added that if Debian will continue with
this policy then the MGA, Rage 128 and Radeon DRM drivers will have to
be removed as well.
57. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0404/msg00264.html
58. http://blog.bofh.it/id_27
59. http://packages.debian.org/src:xfree86
60. http://bugs.debian.org/242865
61. http://bugs.debian.org/242866
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