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From: Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adfeno@hyperbola.info>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Installation: Load non-free wifi firmware (iwlwifi)
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 15:04:40 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87371iuzev.fsf@hyperbola.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r2p2xudf.fsf@gmail.com> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Fri, 02 Mar 2018 18:25:16 +0100")

> As far as I understand, linux-libre turns off the ability to load
> non-free firmware.  Why is it so?

It's a bug in the Linux kernel itself, caused by how it actually looks
and loads stuff. See the reply given by Alexandre Oliva ([1]).

[1] <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2018-01/msg00032.html>.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-02 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-02 17:25 Installation: Load non-free wifi firmware (iwlwifi) Pierre Neidhardt
2018-03-02 17:41 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-03-02 20:13   ` Carlo Zancanaro
2018-03-02 18:04 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira [this message]
2018-03-05 12:32 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-03-05 14:00 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-03-23 13:29   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-03-25  5:34 ` Chris Marusich
2018-03-25  6:14   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-03-25 10:21   ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-03-27  9:45     ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-27 22:05     ` Mark H Weaver
2018-04-13 11:55       ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-03-25 10:57   ` Marius Bakke
2018-03-29  5:11     ` Chris Marusich
2018-05-01 19:30   ` Librem (was: Installation: Load non-free wifi firmware (iwlwifi)) Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-02 18:07     ` Librem Joshua Branson
2018-05-03  6:47       ` Librem Chris Marusich
2018-05-03  7:44         ` Librem Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-09  6:07           ` Librem Chris Marusich
2018-05-09 16:58             ` Librem Nils Gillmann
2018-05-04 20:56         ` Librem Joshua Branson
2018-05-04 15:15     ` Librem (was: Installation: Load non-free wifi firmware (iwlwifi)) Christopher Lemmer Webber
2018-05-04 15:17       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-04 16:32       ` Librem Mike Gerwitz
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-05-11 12:19 Installation: Load non-free wifi firmware (iwlwifi) 白い熊
2022-05-11 12:31 ` yasu
2022-05-12  7:37   ` 白い熊@相撲道
2022-05-12 16:00     ` zimoun
2022-05-12 20:19       ` David Lecompte
2022-05-12 23:53         ` Yasuaki Kudo
2022-05-13 11:59       ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2022-05-13  1:33     ` Maxim Cournoyer

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