Re: [gNewSense-users] Removing non-free from kernel

[Brian Brazil]

On 4/18/07, Matthew Flaschen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Josh Martens wrote:
> > I wish it could be that easy, apparently it can only be done manually.
>
> The actual script used by Builder (the distribution generator gnewsense
> uses) is
> http://svn.gnewsense.svnhopper.net/filedetails.php?repname=gNewSense&path=%2Fbuilder%2Ftrunk%2Fgen-kernel
> .  That script was made by hand by the devs (for which I am very
> grateful), but I believe a heuristic (32 numerical constants in a row)
> script
> (http://svn.gnewsense.svnhopper.net/filedetails.php?repname=gNewSense&path=%2Fbuilder%2Ftrunk%2Ffirmware%2Ffind-firmware)
> is used to start.  Then, someone has to go through this list and find
> false positives. The process is obviously imperfect.
>
> > Otherwise I'd be using the latest kernel sources.
>
> You can probably run gen-kernel on them without /much/ trouble.

I had a quick attempt at the Etch kernel (which nothing is likely to
come of). A good bit has changed and there are new non-free blobs in
there. So it'll probably work, but won't remove all the non-free
stuff. YMMV.

Brian