Bug#693666: Contains non-free FPGA bitfiles

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 05:05:30AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Package: dahdi-linux
> Version: 1:2.6.1+dfsg-1
> Severity: serious
> Tags: upstream
> 
> drivers/dahdi/pciradio.rbt and drivers/dahdi/tormenta2.rbt appear to
> be FPGA bitfiles or other firmware images.  Their headers refer to
> some source files, but even if these were included they would
> presumably need non-free tools for conversion.

Those files are from th original Zapata Telphony project:
http://www.zapatatelephony.org/

> 
> I'm afraid these will have to be moved to a separate package in the
> non-free section.  I'd be happy to add them to firmware-nonfree, but
> you'll need to change the related drivers to use request_firmware().

They could be added to dahdi-firmware-nonfree onc this is done. I'll try
to look into that. Thanks for th note.

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