Proprietary Firmware and the Pursuit of a Free Kernel

Hi In Fedora 10, there is a kernel-firmware package so you can exclude *-firmware in yum.conf if you are concerned about this. The work is close to getting completed. http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3787736_1 "According to Woodhouse, such solutions are in keeping with the modern kernel practice of removing firmware from the kernel. New drivers already follow this practice, and old ones are being rewritten to follow it in what he calls largely routine "janitorial work to bring drivers up to date with how we do things these days." "There are plenty of technical reasons why it's better to do that," Woodhouse says. "It's much easier to change firmware and experiment with it, and it avoids taking up unswappable kernel memory for something which is only required occasionally." Rahul