<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Indeed, I have built the firmware for a usb-serial adaptor. The firmware is free and the assembly source code is in the kernel tree under a free license. But as it is not built, having the binary in the tree as well, the result was that for almost 10 years (F###-Yeah !!) the binary did not correspond to the actual source. There was 1 byte with a different value in the binary, which renders the firmware useless as it wond operate not even close to correctly at all.<br><br></div>That's why firmware should be built from source.<br><br></div>Felipe Sanches<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Paul Wise <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pabs@debian.org" target="_blank">pabs@debian.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 2:34 AM, John Sullivan wrote:<br>
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> the general project of getting more firmware released as free software.<br>
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</span>A related thing would be for Debian to build our existing free<br>
firmware from source instead of shipping existing binaries like we do<br>
now.<br>
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bye,<br>
pabs<br>
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<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise" target="_blank">https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise</a><br>
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