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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Jason Self <jason@bluehome.net>
Cc: 14851@debbugs.gnu.org, Alexandre Oliva <lxoliva@fsfla.org>
Subject: bug#14851: linux-libre-3.3.8-gnu disappeared
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 15:55:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vc4ddz50.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1373776087.18732@bluehome.net> (Jason Self's message of "Sat, 13 Jul 2013 21:28:07 -0700 (PDT)")

"Jason Self" <jason@bluehome.net> skribis:

> My understanding is that the change from gnu to gnu1 is the result of
> changes that were needed to the deblobbing. Specifically to allow the
> loading of the firmware used by ath9k-htc, now that it's free [0]...
> i.e. 3.3.8-gnu and 3.3.8-gnu1 aren't the same source code.

OK, thanks for the info.

It’s hard for us to deal with disappearing software.  In this case,
we’re currently using this tarball just to install the Linux-Libre
headers to build libc, and our ‘linux-libre’ package can use a different
upstream version than ‘linux-libre-headers’ anyway.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-14 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-12 11:02 bug#14851: linux-libre-3.3.8-gnu disappeared Andreas Enge
2013-07-12 22:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-07-14  4:28   ` Jason Self
2013-07-14 13:55     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-07-17 13:31     ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-07-19 11:08   ` Alexandre Oliva
2013-07-19 12:09     ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-07-19 19:50       ` Alexandre Oliva
2013-07-19 20:30         ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-07-19 16:51     ` Andreas Enge
2013-07-19 19:40       ` Alexandre Oliva
2017-04-03 10:53 ` bug#14851: #14851 - " ng0
2017-05-05 18:56   ` Ludovic Courtès

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