On Di, Jul 04, 2017 at 12:44:34 +0100, KatolaZ wrote:
>Uh? Which are those proprietary drivers needed to mount the root
>filesystem? AFAICT, Linux-libre is able to mount almost any
>filesystem, from almost any existing storage device, without requiring
>any proprietary binary blob at all.

There are professional network cards which require a non-free firmware,
e.g. Broadcom.
So if your rootfs is an iSCSI volume you would need the firmware.

Besides that I don’t know any „normal” SATA/SAS controller requiring
firmware.

Shade and sweet water!

    Stephan

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