2.6.29-libre1, 2.6.28-libre3, 2.6.27-libre2
Alexandre Oliva
lxoliva at fsfla.org
Tue Jun 9 20:45:19 UTC 2009
There are new releases marking the beginning of Linux-libre gen3 that
should soon land in the repositories.
What changed:
- deblob-main now creates lzip's .lz tarballs in addition to bzip2's
.bz2
- fix e100 driver so that it works again with cards that could use but
that don't require non-Free firmware
- disable Radeon, R128 and MGA gpu drivers again, as in gen1.
Linux-libre radeon driver just doesn't work without firmware, breaking
the Xorg radeon driver. Not having the kernel driver actually enables
the X driver to work, at least to some extent.
- fix assorted deblobbing errors that prevented builds on some specific
configurations, and that let through a few non-Free firmware names in
code and documentation, particularly WIMAX i2400m.
There are other changes to deblob-check in preparation for 2.6.30, for
the 2.6.26- backports, and in preparation for a switch to another
scripting machinery, in pursuit of faster deblobbing. Nothing
functional yet, but significant changes to the regexps were made to ease
the mechanical conversion between different regexp syntaxes.
--
Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/
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