Hi Denis, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <gnu...@cyberdimension.org> writes:
[...] > An example would be to switch from linux-libre to some 100% free linux > kernel that doesn't block nonfree firmware, so if users reluctantly > need nonfree firmware they would, on their own, add them. I thought I'd mention that technically, making it impossible to load any firmware in linux-libre is considered a bug, and someone could contribute a fix. Last time I discussed it with the linux-libre, the reason loading non-free firmware is outright disabled is because it'd be trivial for any privileged (or maybe that's not even a condition?) processes to make a system call to Linux to load non-free firmware, which would make it difficult to control for users. So fixing that bug would require that users are given some means to put the firmware that should be accepted on an allow-list configuration or something, along their checksum for example. Maybe you or someone else would like to work toward fixing that, then we wouldn't need another kernel for the hardware that won't run without non-free firmware (*cough* GPUs *cough*). -- Thanks, Maxim
