Hello, Jing Luo, Thanks for your report.
On May 8, 2024, Jing Luo <[email protected]> wrote: > TLDR: I don't know if you already checked this, there is a > pre-compiled binary blob in the kernel tree. I don't recall whether I looked into this one in the 6.8 cycle, but we don't mind precompiled object code that is accompanied by corresponding source code, especially when it's small enough as to be manually verifiable like this one. It makes a lot of sense to be extra careful after the xz trojan, but ISTM we have corresponding sources (and so I should have marked the source/object relationship in the cleaning-up script; will do), and our criterion is software freedom, with minimal changes to achive it, so I believe keeping it is the right call. I could be convinced otherwise in case I missed any bits of relevance in my inspection of the object file. Please let me know if you know of any freedom problems with it. Thanks again, -- Alexandre Oliva, happy hacker https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo/ Free Software Activist GNU Toolchain Engineer Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very few check the facts. Think Assange & Stallman. The empires strike back _______________________________________________ linux-libre mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre
