kernel-libre (hopefully 100% Free) for Fedora 8 and rawhide
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva at redhat.com
Tue Mar 25 20:11:58 UTC 2008
On Mar 25, 2008, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 02:18:01PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> > And neglecting to remove plenty of other firmware.
>> Examples are welcome.
> I gave one below..
Not part of the kernel AFAIK, which makes it irrelevant for this
kernel-libre project. But it is indeed a problem, I don't deny it.
>> And people don't take it up to Intel that they shipped a defective
>> product?
> I challenge you to find a single microprocessor that has ever shipped
> without errata.
Point being? How does this ethically justify Intel's denying its
customers the ability to make independent changes and fixes to the
microprocessors they purchased from Intel?
>> Or are you volunteering to take over these efforts? :-)
> Are you volunteering to prefilter all the incoming kernel bugs
> to triage the bugs affected by your alternative ?
I have no idea of the workload involved.
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