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On 02/10/2013 04:45 PM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: |
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> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina |
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> <zerochaos@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Honestly while I agree this could have been handled a little more |
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>> carefully we all win by having ONE place for firmware. The firmware |
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>> package is like 20MB, if you don't have that much free harddrive space |
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>> then you can use the savedconfig option to tune for just your hardware |
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> |
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> It's ~45MB when extracted, but the issue is not just with space, since |
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> on a "proper" Gentoo system firmware is about the only thing that's |
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> not compiled from source (besides less significant stuff like fonts, |
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> many of which can be optionally compiled anyway). Combined with |
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> various less-than-free licenses, installing one huge blob of firmware |
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> is problematic for many users, also from a security point of view. |
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Licenses are licenses, we all feel the same about non-free things. I |
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whole heartedly disagree about the firmware, having a firmware on your |
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system doesn't affect security, sorry, it just doesn't. |
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>> Having 300 -firmware packages is silly. |
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> I agree, but think that the process can be more user-friendly than a |
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> savedconfig — perhaps a variable as was suggested already. |
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I am marked maintainer of linux-firmware due to my desire to make sure |
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wifi related things work. I have no desire at all to implement use |
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expand for this, HOWEVER, I am willing to accept a patch for that if it |
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comes out even close to sane. |
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- -Zero |
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