Pablo pablo@parobalth.org:
Probably a good idea to use mainline libre-linux, but first want to make a diff file comparing their fork with libre to make sure their aren't any drivers which are libre that we might need (or any bug-fixes).
There is a deblob script used by Parabola Linux to liberate a mainline kernel. It is used to create a libre-linux kernel from mainline.
just chiming in to clarify that Parabola actually uses Linux-libre as provided by the FSFLA. they're the ones maintaining and running the deblob script and we just grab their pre-cleaned sources. needless to say, nothing prevents you or us from applying the script to linux mainline ourselves.
i'm not familiar with Debian, but i've heard a number of times that their kernel (and rest of the system indeed) is also equally clean by default.