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

On 2014-06-08 07:25, Riley Baird (Orthogonal) wrote: I'm working on creating a libre version of u-boot with the hopes of talking to the u-boot project in the future. A version or tools to deblob any useful version? Many boards that might be good targets for non-embedded distros have their own

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

>> I'm working on creating a libre version of u-boot with the hopes >> of talking to the u-boot project in the future. > > A version or tools to deblob any useful version? Many boards that > might be good targets for non-embedded distros have their own forks > of u-boot. > > I used Linux-libre's

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

>> 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

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

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: >

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

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: - arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xx/upatch.c: contains microcode pat

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

Sorry for chiming in this thread so late. I have read most of the previous responses and have done the following as a result: * RM'ed the $SRC_ROOT/docs directory. New clean documentation will be written soon. * tools/b43-tools has now been removed * libreCMC now has a mailing list(s) at : h

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

On 17/05/14 03:51, Joshua Gay wrote: > Hello, > > I would greatly appreciate your help in helping me review LibreCMC to > see if it can become an endorsed distro. > > I suspect that this should be a pretty easy small distro to check. > > Distro name: LibreCMC > > Source repo:

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

> In librecmc-1.2.tar.bz2 inside dl/cmake-2.8.12.2.tar.gz is Utilities/ > xml/ docbook-4.5/ ent/ isoamsa.ent (and other *.ent files here) it > mentions: > > (C) International Organization for Standardization 1986 > Permission to copy in any form is granted for use with > conforming SGML systems and

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

Joshua Gay wrote: > I received a release of corresponding source on a disk from the > maintainer. Is it version 1.2? If so I have the same CD and fed everything on it to my FOSSology instance for analysis. In librecmc-1.2.tar.bz2 inside dl/cmake-2.8.12.2.tar.gz is Utilities/ xml/ docbook-4.5/ e

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

Hi P.J. Thank you for this initial analysis. Maintainer: Bob Call I don't see him on this list. Should we be sending copies of messages in this thread to him? I have forwarded your email to Bob and asked him to join the list and then to send a reply to your email. Josh

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

It's great to see libreCMC seeking endorsement! On 2014-05-16 13:51, Joshua Gay wrote: > Hello, > > I would greatly appreciate your help in helping me review LibreCMC to > see if it can become an endorsed distro. > > I suspect that this should be a pretty easy small distro to check. > > Distro

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

Hello, I would greatly appreciate your help in helping me review LibreCMC to see if it can become an endorsed distro. I suspect that this should be a pretty easy small distro to check. Distro name: LibreCMC Source repo: Website: (t