I'd love to hear about any updates on Heads. I'm very excited about the project.
Peace & Blessings, Kurtis Jaromil: > > > dear Luke, > > Many thanks for your detailed response, I include Parazyd in cc: > > I hope we can join forces and rely on your effort for Parabola, then > we'll also look for ways to make your work more sustainable. > > On Sun, 15 Jan 2017, Luke wrote: > >> On 01/15/2017 08:46 AM, Jaromil wrote: >>> I'll take the occasion to pose a question we have unanswered at the >>> moment: because of our plan to make heads really secure, the wish is >>> that of applying the -grsec patch to linux-libre. >>> >>> is there any concern regarding the free nature of the -grsec patch? >> >> There are non-free blobs in the grsec patch since 2015[1], Parabola is >> currently removing them for our grsec kernel. >> You can either use these deblobbed ones or remove the non-free firmware >> on your own.[2] >> >> I e-mailed spender about the issue and he provided a python script which >> removes *all* firmware. Unfortunately, it also removes free firmware >> since the script does not have any sanity checks.[3] It could be useful >> to revisit this script and get it working properly to automate blob / >> non-free firmware removal. >> >> Luke >> Parabola GNU/Linux-Libre Packager >> >> [1] https://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4209 >> >> [2] https://repomirror.parabola.nu/other/grsecurity-libre/test/ >> >> [3] https://lists.parabola.nu/pipermail/dev/2016-December/004667.html >> >> > > > > > >