[Fsf-Debian] A small thought on how Debian might be able to help.

[Paul Wise]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 2:55 AM, John Sullivan wrote:

> Definitely, I did not know that was the case. Have there been bugs filed
> already about it?

No bugs filed yet, some links to previous discussions about it:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/03/msg00230.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/10/msg00584.html

In summary, firmware is exceptionally hard to build, often requiring
special tools or building a toolchain for a single chip which has a
custom ISA, or a toolchain with non-mainline patches.

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pabs

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