[Mageia-dev] Removal of non-free firmware from core section

Anssi Hannula anssi at mageia.org
Tue Nov 8 10:34:56 CET 2011


On 08.11.2011 00:56, Johnny A. Solbu wrote:
> On Monday 07 November 2011 23:26, Anssi Hannula wrote:
>> I've looked in our kernel-firmware package in core/release, and found
>> firmware for several dozens of devices that are not OSI-free
> 
>> Shall I move the firmware files for the following hardware to        
>> kernel-firmware-extra, which is in nonfree/release?
> 
> I vote yes.
> 
> 
>> - ATI/AMD Radeon cards (free driver)
> 
> As supposed to a driver one have to pay for? :-)=
> (Or do you mean it is free as in Free Software?)

I mean the non-free firmware files which are needed by the free software
driver (x11-driver-video-ati).

-- 
Anssi Hannula


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