From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marius Bakke Subject: Re: Installation: Load non-free wifi firmware (iwlwifi) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 12:57:18 +0200 Message-ID: <87po3sjucx.fsf@fastmail.com> References: <87r2p2xudf.fsf@gmail.com> <87po3slnvb.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35954) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f03L2-0005VS-JE for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2018 06:57:25 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f03Kz-0003aZ-F1 for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2018 06:57:24 -0400 Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:60025) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f03Kz-0003Zx-7Q for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2018 06:57:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87po3slnvb.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Chris Marusich , Pierre Neidhardt Cc: help-guix --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Chris Marusich writes: > Hi Pierre, > > Pierre Neidhardt writes: > >> linux-libre turns off the ability to load non-free firmware. Why is >> it so? > > I did a little bit of searching on the Internet, and it seems to me like > the reason why Linux-libre turns off the ability to load non-free > firmware is because the project does not want to induce you to use > non-free software. This is not true. After all, you may wish to load a firmware that you have developed yourself, but that is not possible either. The problem is a limitation of the kernel interface and/or the deblobbing script: From=20an interview with Alexandre Oliva[0]: "Indeed, I became aware that some users have got the idea that blocking the loading of blobs is a feature. It's not; it's just a bug that's quite difficult to fix. The decision on whether or not to use a piece of software, be it Free or not, should belong to the users, and it's not our intent to make that difficult." [0] https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/blogs/lxo/2013-11-08-linux-libre-intervie= w-by-bruce-byfield.en.html --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCgAdFiEEu7At3yzq9qgNHeZDoqBt8qM6VPoFAlq3gI4ACgkQoqBt8qM6 VPr+zwgAx/teWaAkhzITNgVwvVUyyEpt3UfnAEhPz4pE0TRuiztqImhELH1un7M5 9BHn/SQFoEoMbDkmf0zg9YRr03QzbrZ2sJ7taY/INUgXlk1YRy9IX/gLfOp4OCBb fhWMAwtswoPyOcoou/kcdz3i7bylNVYN8aqCpQI0l0zMomRlVwFsgL1n63hvZyp4 oehY8jzp6rh2cIqnqEKRXn66ulRwP7DVgFpNe69QouugOTYW6MYhHTFsKng+FOpK yX0Cg50QNS0M2bn/uprvt0jOam24wanR9gHKe9eSUCNkNkKqWJYraEE+4KaiGTmR W9siOfNg1uY+hYfH6xCGtFoRfVufzQ== =J6Qo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--