Fixing the firmware mess

Speaker: Steve McIntyre

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Track: Packaging, policy, and Debian infrastructure

Type: BoF (45 minutes)

Room: Drini

Time: Jul 24 (Sun): 10:00

Duration: 0:45

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.