From: David Craven <david@craven.ch>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Leaving the guix project
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2017 12:13:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL1_immLxEJrkUGrOR26u8OipmS7=rVknROtLPTTXENdUikmZA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fujbslf4.fsf@elephly.net>
> Accepting pre-built binaries as part of kernel sources
I don't think this is true either, or has not been for a very long
time (~7y?). If you look at the dates of the commits that added binary
blobs (i.e. the firmware directory), those are many years old. It is
an active effort to move the blobs out of the linux kernel into
linux-firmware. This requires rewriting drivers that do use binary
blobs. I'm also pretty sure they'd accept a patch to add a kernel
configuration option to not include these "old" drivers...
The linux kernel build system provides ways of building modules that
include binary blobs - but I don't think those are accepted into
mainline anymore, it's just a mechanism that some companies still
require to provide out of tree board support packages etc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-19 11:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-16 0:14 Leaving the guix project David Craven
2017-02-16 1:40 ` Leo Famulari
2017-02-16 8:24 ` Alex Kost
2017-02-16 8:38 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-02-16 8:40 ` Hartmut Goebel
2017-02-16 11:35 ` Alex Vong
2017-02-16 13:17 ` Andy Wingo
2017-02-16 13:20 ` Andy Wingo
2017-02-17 12:56 ` David Craven
2017-02-17 13:48 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-02-17 14:05 ` John Darrington
2017-02-17 16:37 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-02-17 23:47 ` David Craven
2017-02-18 0:25 ` David Craven
2017-02-18 13:02 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-02-19 11:13 ` David Craven [this message]
2017-02-18 12:24 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-02-19 18:30 ` Alex Kost
2017-02-20 8:59 ` Tomas Cech
2017-02-20 13:25 ` John Darrington
2017-02-20 22:08 ` ng0
2017-02-21 1:51 ` Mike Gerwitz
2017-02-21 13:13 ` David Craven
2017-02-22 4:52 ` Mike Gerwitz
2017-02-22 13:54 ` David Craven
2017-02-22 13:58 ` John Darrington
2017-02-22 14:06 ` David Craven
2017-02-22 14:14 ` David Craven
2017-02-22 14:44 ` Clément Lassieur
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2017-02-22 15:00 ` David Craven
2017-02-22 15:30 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-02-22 14:30 ` Clément Lassieur
2017-02-22 15:42 ` Leo Famulari
2017-02-22 15:58 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2017-02-22 17:14 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-02-21 8:31 ` Alex Kost
2017-02-21 10:26 ` Leaving the guix project (rust question) ng0
2017-02-21 17:40 ` Leaving the guix project Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-03-06 9:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-10 20:20 ` David Craven
2017-03-10 21:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-11 11:57 ` ng0
2017-03-11 1:30 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
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2017-02-22 17:29 ` Rodger Fox
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