Re: [gNewSense-users] some ideas

[jeff]

Brian Brazil wrote:
> On 11/6/06, Dave Crossland <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 06/11/06, jeff <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > I'll also note that they compile their kernel with this, so they
> > > don't get blobs:
> > > CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y
> >
> > Great :-)
>
> Hmm, I'm not sure this will catch everything. I remember a number of
> drivers that had config variables of a related nature, but lots that
> didn't.
>
> For instance (from the first online Kernel I could find):
> http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/lxr/source/drivers/net/e100.c (search for 
> UCODE)
> http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/lxr/source/drivers/net/Kconfig

Well at this point it's getting a bit beyond me as I'm certainly no kernel 
hacker. But it looks pretty blobbie to me...

If you are going to go through the kernel like that, that's cool. You have one 
helluva project in front of you. Basically you're forking the linux kernel into 
a gnu'd linux kernel, as far as I can tell. Do you want to do all the work of a 
distro on top of that?! ;)

-Jeff