[Arm-netbook] Side-Topic: Liberating PocketCHIP

Pablo Rath pablo at parobalth.org
Tue Jul 11 11:14:34 BST 2017


On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 06:01:42PM -0500, Isaac David wrote:
> Pablo <pablo at parobalth.org>:
> >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.

Thank you for correcting my error and giving proper credit to the FSFLA.
I even visited the homepage of FSFLA a few weeks ago and took a look at
the deblop script but did not get that Parabola uses the pre-cleaned
sources provided by the FSFLA.

kind regards
Pablo



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