2010/5/5 Kent Watsen <kent@watsen.net>

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> There is a discussion on the osol-discuss mailing list this morning where
> it's pointed out that OpenBSD source tree has a blob in it:
>
> http://osdir.com/ml/opensolaris-discuss/2010-05/msg00095.html
>
> The location of the blob in the tree is here:
>
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/microcode/afb/microcode.h?rev=1.1;co...
>
> A posting from Alan Coopersmith from last December:
>
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/x-packagers/2009-December/000091.html
>
> The only "official" OpenBSD position statement I could find is on the 3.9
> lyrics page:
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#39
>
> Where it says " OpenBSD remains blob-free"  - not true?
>
>
He thinks "code on the ethernet card" is different if you load it from file
or if it came pre-burned on a ROM.

OpenBSD thinks code-that-runs-in-my-kernel (like the popular gfx-card blobs)
are different from code-that-runs-in-my-eth-card
(like firmware files)

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