[GNU-linux-libre] Announcement: Iceweasel-Libre packages in slack-n-free repo

2014-06-06 Thread Henry Jensen
The slack-n-free repo offers binary builds of Linux-Libre for Slackware-based distros since September 2013. Now there are additionally libre packages made available. Initially the slack-n-free repo offers builds of iceweasel-libre für x86 and x86_64 - based on the work by the Parabola GNU/Linux p

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Endorsed distro review for LibreCMC

2014-06-06 Thread Michał Masłowski
>> Interesting. Have you found any more blobs? If u-boot were compiled >> using a tarball with the blobs included, would the device be running >> nonfree code? > No, because libreCMC does not target those architectures. You can't run > PowerPC code on a MIPS CPU. It just does not work. The only tar

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Endorsed distro review for LibreCMC

2014-06-06 Thread bob
On 2014-06-06 07:36, Riley Baird (Orthogonal) wrote: On 29/05/14 00:52, Michał Masłowski wrote: I believe the u-boot source downloaded by LibreCMC (and LibreWRT) contains sourceless firmware blobs that we should remove. They are not used by any supported device. At least these paths inside u-b

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Endorsed distro review for LibreCMC

2014-06-06 Thread Riley Baird (Orthogonal)
On 29/05/14 00:52, Michał Masłowski wrote: > I believe the u-boot source downloaded by LibreCMC (and LibreWRT) > contains sourceless firmware blobs that we should remove. They are > not used by any supported device. > > At least these paths inside u-boot-2013.10 might contain nonfree > code: >