free firmware mistakenly removed by LinuxLibre

Alexandre Oliva lxoliva at fsfla.org
Fri Dec 31 15:48:35 UTC 2010


On Dec 30, 2010, Felipe Sanches <juca at members.fsf.org> wrote:

> DVB_AV7110 - AV7110 cards
> drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110.c: disabled non-Free firmware-loading machinery
> drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110.c: removed blobs

> The source code for this firmware is available here:
> http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/Boot.S

We preserve firmware/av7110/bootcode.bin, built out of
firmware/av7110/boot.S, and the ability to load it.  It's a different
piece of firmware that gets deblobbed above.

> http://jucablues.blogspot.com/2010/12/coordinating-efforts-towards-free.html

Thanks!

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