Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 09:21:00 +0000 From: "Michal Sapka" <michal@sapka.me> To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> Cc: freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mSATA card? Message-ID: <ab40441c-39e4-46fc-884a-3ba86fbd718d@app.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6so9r7r4-90qn-39rq-4r1o-8np1p1q888s3@yvfgf.mnoonqbm.arg> References: <abb4739f-4cd6-4df7-936a-7c08356cb486@app.fastmail.com> <6so9r7r4-90qn-39rq-4r1o-8np1p1q888s3@yvfgf.mnoonqbm.arg>
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Hey Bjoern! Firstly, thank you for your work. > mSATA or mPCIe? Likely the latter? Yes, it seems that you are right. I've been out of PC world for the last few years and things changed causing a lot of confusion for me. > No if a driver is in sys/dev or sys/contrib/dev it doesn't mean it's all > open source. A lot of modern NICs (wired or wireless) will have > firmware (blobs) along in order to function. So while the driver (OS > side) is open source, what runs on the chip (the tiny computer on the > cards) usually is not (anymore). Thanks for the explanation. This means that only the FSF certification would ensure that the hardware has open drivers? And I guess this would also be a no-go for me due to whitelist of the bios... —- Michał https://michal.sapka.mehelp
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