On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 14:19 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On May 23, 2008, David Woodhouse dwmw2@infradead.org 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.
When that's done, we can have a sensible discussion upstream about moving them to a separate tarball. And as I said -- even if upstream baulks at that last step, I'd support Fedora doing it on our own.