On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 09:58:26AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 09:11:52PM +1000, Riley wrote: > > It has been found by posters on the gnu-linux-libre mailing list that some > > files within u-boot contain code that is not in source form, violating > > DFSG2. > > Please see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux- > > libre/2014-05/msg00014.html for a list of sourceless files found. > > The files referenced in that email appear to be: > > arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xx/upatch.c > board/dave/PPChameleonEVB/fpgadata.c > board/esd/plu405/fpgadata.c > board/esd/du405/fpgadata.c > board/esd/cpci405/fpgadata_cpci4052.c > board/esd/cpci405/fpgadata_cpci405ab.c > board/esd/cpci405/fpgadata_cpci405.c > board/esd/pci405/fpgadata.c > board/esd/hh405/fpgadata.c > board/esd/ar405/fpgadata.c > board/esd/ar405/fpgadata_xl30.c > board/esd/dasa_sim/fpgadata.c > board/esd/voh405/fpgadata.c > board/esd/apc405/fpgadata.c > board/esd/tasreg/fpgadata.c > board/esd/ash405/fpgadata.c > board/esd/wuh405/fpgadata.c > board/esd/cpciiser4/fpgadata.c > board/sixnet/fpgadata.c > board/netta/dsp.c > drivers/dma/MCD_tasks.c > > After a brief glance, I don't *think* any of the targets we ship use these > files. They do appear to contain data that might be contstrued as sourceless > firmware...
I've tested builds on armhf, armel, amd64 and powerpc, with these files removed, and none of those builds failed... so it should be safe to remove those files with a repackaged source tarball. live well, vagrant
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