I noticed that there are some files which are included in Linux-libre, but stripped from Debian's kernel:
arch/powerpc/platforms/8xx/micropatch.c drivers/media/i2c/vs6624.c drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia drivers/video/fbdev/riva The first file, micropatch.c, contains Motorola microcode patches without any source code. There are references to this file in deblob-check, but the file was moved. The second file contains a blob called vs6624_p1 consisting of data to be written to some registers. The registers are not referred to numerically, not by names, so it seems unlikely that this is the preferred form for modification. Again, there are references to this file in deblob-check but the file was moved. The nvidia and riva drivers contain obfuscated source code, according to the Debian dfsg patches: > These drivers contain register programming code provided by the > hardware vendor that appears to have been deliberately obfuscated. > This is arguably not the preferred form for modification. > > These drivers are also largely redundant with nouveau. The RIVA 128 > (NV3) is not supported by nouveau but is about 15 years old and > probably discontinued 10 years ago. There is a discussion about this from 2006: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=383465 Legimet _______________________________________________ linux-libre mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre
