26 Aug
2004
26 Aug
'04
4:21 p.m.
martin rumori <lists(a)rumori.de> writes:
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 05:06:53PM +0200, ChristianH
wrote:
Which can be very problematic, as some people do take it *very* serious
with free software and refuse to include firmware which is not under GPL
or a similar free licence in their distribution...
In my case it was the firmware of a RME Hammerfall card which (some)
Debian people do not want to distribute... The case made me switch
from AGNULA/DeMuDi to Planet CCRMA (Which are both excellent audio
distributions BTW)
Robert Epprecht
Why is it so important to load the firmware?
Do they put in an extra light firmware at the factory, in order to keep
shipping weights low? <gr>
to keep shipping weights rather low, they put in NO firmware in some
hardware (just a loader). firmware is included with the driver and
required to be uploaded to the device on every initialization or at
least after every power on.