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

[David Woodhouse]

On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 16:43 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Mar 23, 2008, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 01:42 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> >> > I can understand moving firmware loading to userspace a lot of the
> >> > time,
> >> 
> >> That's not what this is about.  Moving firmware loading anywhere won't
> >> make the firmware non-Free, it would just paper over the issue.
> 
> > I disagree. For _Fedora_, that's precisely what this should be about.
> 
> That's not the reason why *I'm* doing this work.
> 
> I wouldn't oppose if people patched the 100% Free kernel by
> (re-)introducing stuff that depend on loading non-Free firmware, as
> long as the firmware itself is not included in the 100% Free kernel
> (not even its sources).
> 
> I'm just not interested in doing this work myself.  It's much simpler
> for me to simply remove the offending code.

That's fine. But off-topic for this list.

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dwmw2