[Mageia-dev] Removal of non-free firmware from core section
Anssi Hannula
anssi at mageia.org
Tue Nov 8 15:35:26 CET 2011
On 08.11.2011 00:58, José Jorge wrote:
> Le lundi 7 novembre 2011 23:26:19, Anssi Hannula a écrit :
>> The most notable examples of affected firmware are
>> - ATI/AMD Radeon cards (free driver)
>> - Broadcom Tigon3 Gigabit Ethernet
>> - Intel PRO/100 Ethernet
>> - Matrox G200/G400/G550
>>
>
> I have used Broadcom Tigon3 and ATI/AMD Radeon x700 without firmware, and it
> works basicaly enough to allow users to decide to get the firmware by them
> selves.
So Tigon3 works to some degree without firmware?
That's good to hear. I don't have my tg3 system in use anymore.
> So I'd say yes it can and should move to non-free, as it is even possible to
> use this hardware without it.
>
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Anssi Hannula
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