On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:36:38PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
Which just goes to support my claim that it's very unlikely that the changes that remove non-Free blobs from the kernel just won't be accepted.
Well that mostly depends if the people doing the work are prepared to be rational about it and submit request_firmware() based support, test it and identify the additional files needed.
So far all we've had from the "Free software extremist" side has been - stupid patches to just remove stuff - insults - long political arguments on a technical list - people saying "we" (being some undefined 'kernel community' with whom they apparently think they have a service contract) should fix it.
Alan