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| author | Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> | 2023-01-31 10:52:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> | 2023-01-31 10:59:13 +0100 |
| commit | 04f4aa2539b3e034a677ebbbacb55b41c1c7d4e4 (patch) | |
| tree | 068c1a4eecc8d82003cba46990f6a932346bc6c6 /en/hardware | |
| parent | 53a3c6dee39b767d513d43628edb5677480afa40 (diff) | |
| download | installation-guide-04f4aa2539b3e034a677ebbbacb55b41c1c7d4e4.zip | |
minor nitpicking
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| -rw-r--r-- | en/hardware/hardware-supported.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/en/hardware/hardware-supported.xml b/en/hardware/hardware-supported.xml index fa536dceb..fb135e6c9 100644 --- a/en/hardware/hardware-supported.xml +++ b/en/hardware/hardware-supported.xml @@ -364,18 +364,18 @@ In most cases firmware is non-free according to the criteria used by the If the device driver itself is included in the distribution and if &debian-gnu; legally can distribute the firmware, it will often be available as a separate package from the non-free-firmware section -of the archive (non-free before &debian-gnu; 12.0). +of the archive (prior to &debian-gnu; 12.0: from the non-free section). </para><para> However, this does not mean that such hardware cannot be used during -an installation. Starting with &debian-gnu; 12.0, following the <ulink +installation. Starting with &debian-gnu; 12.0, following the <ulink url="https://www.debian.org/vote/2022/vote_003">2022 General Resolution about non-free firmware</ulink>, official installation images can include non-free firmware packages. By default, &d-i; will -detect required firmware (based on kernel logs and based on modalias +detect required firmware (based on kernel logs and modalias information), and install the relevant packages if they are found on -installation images (e.g. on the netinst). The package manager gets +an installation medium (e.g. on the netinst). The package manager gets automatically configured with the matching components so that those packages get security updates. This usually means that the non-free-firmware component gets enabled, in addition to main. |