Bug#642468: kfreebsd-8|9 does not provide any method to use non-free firmware blobs

2011-09-23 Thread Robert Millan
2011/9/22 Arno Töll : > Accomplishing our social contract, the FreeBSD kernel is being stripped of > non-free parts [1][2] and #594940. However the social contract also says "We > acknowledge > that some of our users require the use of works that do not conform to the > Debian Free Software Guidel

Bug#642468: Fwd: Re: Bug#642468: kfreebsd-8|9 does not provide any method to use non-free firmware blobs

2011-09-23 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry, forgot to reply to the bug instead. - Original Message On 23.09.2011 15:32, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi Petr, > On Freitag, 23. September 2011, Petr Salinger wrote: >> Here is the recipe for building own kernel with bce > > wha

Bug#642468: kfreebsd-8|9 does not provide any method to use non-free firmware blobs

2011-09-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Petr, thanks for your howto! On Freitag, 23. September 2011, Petr Salinger wrote: > Here is the recipe for building own kernel with bce whats bce? cheers, Holger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Bug#642468: kfreebsd-8|9 does not provide any method to use non-free firmware blobs

2011-09-23 Thread Petr Salinger
This firmware is being removed from the kfreebsd kernel leaving no (easy) possibility to use kfreebsd on such a server as there is no possibility to load non-free firmware at runtime, like we do on Linux. Its neither (easily) possible to rebuild the kernel from scratch including firmware, as th

Bug#642468: kfreebsd-8|9 does not provide any method to use non-free firmware blobs

2011-09-22 Thread Arno Töll
Package: kfreebsd-8 Severity: important Accomplishing our social contract, the FreeBSD kernel is being stripped of non-free parts [1][2] and #594940. However the social contract also says "We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of works that do not conform to the Debian Free Softwa