Re: kernel-libre (hopefully 100% Free) for Fedora 8 and rawhide

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva redhat com>]

On Mar 22, 2008, "Colin Walters" <walters verbum org> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva redhat com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've stripped non-Free firmware bits from Fedora kernels for F8 and
>> rawhide, starting from tools developed by the gNewSense folks and now
>> in use by BLAG developers, and built alternate kernels that I've
>> successfully booted up and used on my x86_64 notebook.

> I think the Fedora CVS tree should not be canonical upstream for
> projects.

I think there's some misunderstanding here.  I'm not talking about a
CVS tree for the kernel proper, just for the spec files, patches, et
al: the stuff that is needed to run packages through the build system.

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