Hi guys, Just to let you know, there's now an ebuild for linux-libre in gentoo's bugzilla; http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266157
We don't need hosting or anything from you guys, as the ebuild just grabs your releases and makes use of them itself. I did create a version of the build which got the latest vanilla kernel, added patches, and ran your deblob script, but the script took a very long time (I gave up after 2 hours), and around 1-1.5G RAM to run. Even for the "I'd rather be compiling" Gentoo folks, this makes it a really really long install, so I decided to stick to just unpacking your pre-prepared tarballs instead (I posted the deblob version in the ticket too, in case anyone can make use of it). Is my experience of the deblob script being very slow and heavy common? Is there much we could do about it? Not to worry if not, but the advantage from here is that it would then be very easy for people to deblob to any version of the kernel (gentoo provides several, e.g. with tuxonice patches). The alternative would be to use your xdelta to patch the vanilla kernel, then apply the extra patches, but this can get a little messy, may prevent the patches from cleanly applying, and of course wouldn't catch any blobs included in later patches. As to when/whether it gets into the main Gentoo portage tree, I don't know, that'll depend on whether one of the gentoo kernel guys wants to adopt it. Still, I know at least a couple of people are using it already, and the bug tracker is a good place for it to rest for now. I'll keep the ticket up to date with your releases (which literally involves no more than renaming the ebuild, so long as you guys don't change your package layout [Gentoo's ace]). Keep up the excellent work, Nick White -- WWW: www.njw.me.uk GPG: 9732 D7C7 A441 D79E FDF0 94F6 1F48 5674 04E4 653F SIP: [email protected] _______________________________________________ linux-libre mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre
