On Mar 25, 2008, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Similarly, you can choose to incrementally move things out of the > kernel which judging from this thread is a approach that Fedora can > work with without having to introduce a new kernel. But this doesn't get me a kernel I can distribute today. Or a kernel I can use today. Or a kernel that could go in Fedora 9. > Just look at the mess with a separate xen kernel to understand this. I do understand it, and I realize it's a very different issue. Removing code, as done in kernel-libre, is *much* easier than forward-porting large patches. And then, how would I post patches upstream that remove the offending bits from upstream without re-distributing the very offending bits I find it immoral to distribute in the first place? That's why won't even distribute a patch from original to modified sources: it contains the non-Free bits in /^-/ lines. That's a line I'm not willing to cross. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
