On May 23, 2008, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 14:19 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On May 23, 2008, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > Hence the suggestion to make the firmware loader capable of having a >> > built-in set of blobs. >> >> Now, the part of your plan that I'm still missing is how to get from >> that to a blob-free GPLed kernel source tarball. Care to share? > First we get to a point where the blobs exist separately in the kernel > and _can_ be easily removed. The korg1212 sound driver patch was just > the first of many, and someone will need to finish the job. Understood. I see one of your patches simply renames a .h to a .c and makes the blob a built-in firmware. Any reason to not have moved it to the firmware/ dir, as I expected from looking at your patches? rm -rf firmware/ is so much simpler :-) > When that's done, we can have a sensible discussion upstream about > moving them to a separate tarball. Hard to have a sensible discussion when what's obvious to one is ridiculous to the other, and vice-versa. (And, just to avoid misunderstandings, I don't mean you or Alan to be neither "one" or "other" in the previous sentence :-) > And as I said -- even if upstream baulks at that last step, I'd > support Fedora doing it on our own. So that we'd have our own linux-libre? Sounds like a plan. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
