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From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To: "Antonios Anastasiadis" <antonakis@gmail.com>, <questions@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: binary blobs in freebsd
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I think it's only device drivers, I've not heard of anything else in
anywhere, other than 3rd party programs that might be in the ports,
that do this.

Ted
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From: "Antonios Anastasiadis" <antonakis@gmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 2:30 PM
Subject: binary blobs in freebsd


> Hello.
> I am thinking about using FreeBSD in various places, however before I
> do that it would be comfortable to know what binary blobs it includes
> in any part of the system, be it binary daemon, binary driver etc.
> Two I am aware of are the Atheros Hal and an Adaptec RAID driver.
> I did not find any definitive resource of some kind anywhere, hence
> the question here.
> Thank you.
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