Re: mSATA card?

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...
 
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Michał 
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