On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 23:37 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes: > > > On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 20:32 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > > I understand that this packages Linux Libre, which is somewhat > > > different from the Debian ‘linux-image’ kernel. What is the > > > likelihood that this work will make its way into Debian main as a > > > supported option? > > > > I believe all the changes Robert made are already in sid, as > > Maximilian Attems said. > > I don't understand that statement. As I understand it, Robert Millan has > packaged someone *else*'s changes: Since Robert was so enthusiastic about the patches I created or adapted in the run up to the lenny release, and since he prepended to the changelog for the existing Debian kernel, I assumed he was using those. > those changes that result in Linux Libre > <URL:http://directory.fsf.org/project/linux/>. Which appears to be scripted using something like: http://www.fsfla.org/svn/fsfla/software/linux-libre/scripts/deblob-2.6.26 [...] > Or are you saying that there's *no* difference between Debian's Linux > and Linux Libre, except the packaging? No. > Or something else? What I meant was that all the firmware blobs reported as bugs in the lenny kernel are gone in sid, either through upstream changes or new Debian patches. A few more, found later, will be gone in the 2.6.30 package. (There are three more blobs I spotted in a recent search, which I will try to separate out when I have the time. It looks like Linux Libre already got those. It still has the blob in arch/powerpc/sysdev/micropatch.c, though.) Ben.
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