GNU Linux-libre 4.18
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GNU Linux-libre 4.18-gnu
Two new drivers had blob requests and were cleaned up (psp-dev crypto
and icn8505 touchscreen), one was removed (atom isp), plenty needed
adjustments.There are some new firmware loading interfaces starting with
firmware_request (rather than request_firmware). The deblob-check
script was adjusted to look for uses thereof. firwmare_request_nowarn
is one of the new interfaces, and it almost looks like we could use it,
since it doesn't log any errors if the firmware is not there, but it
still looks for and asks for non-Free Software, so I decided to disable
it just like request_firmware. -
GNU Linux-libre 4.18-gnu Released As The Latest Deblobbed Kernel
Hot off the release of the upstream Linux 4.18 kernel, the GNU folks have released GNU Linux-libre 4.18-gnu that is their deblobbed version that strips out any "non-free" device driver support, removes the ability to load binary-only kernel modules and not being able to load firmware blobs either.
With the Linux-libre 4.18 release they had to clean-up some new drivers to fit their strict standards on code freedom, removed one more driver (Atom ISP), and make adjustments to other existing code.
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