Fixing the firmware mess
Channel: DebConf Videos
Date: 2022-09-05

by Steve McIntyre

At: DebConf22
https://debconf22.debconf.org/talks/43-fixing-the-firmware-mess/

In my opinion, the way we deal with (non-free) firmware in Debian is a mess,
and this is hurting many of our users daily. For a long time we've been
pretending that supporting and including (non-free) firmware on Debian systems
is not necessary. We don't want to have to provide (non-free) firmware to our
users, and in an ideal world we wouldn't need to. However, it's very clearly no
longer a sensible path when trying to support lots of common current hardware.

See https://blog.einval.com/2022/04/19#firmware-what-do-we-do for more...

Let's get together to work on solutions.

Room: Drini
Scheduled start: 2022-07-24 08:00:00