Alexandre Oliva from the GNU Linux-libre project, a non-profit organization chartered to develop and promote a deblobbed and libre Linux kernel, announced the general availability of GNU Linux-libre 4.10.Based on the recently released Linux 4.10 kernel, the GNU Linux-libre 4.10 kernel is here for users who want 100% freedom when using a GNU/Linux operating system. As such, it ships without any proprietary code by deblobbing various drivers who introduced new blob requirements, especially the GPU ones.
"There's one new driver (st_fdma) that requires blobs, and one removed driver (STE-Modem) that used to require them," said Alexandre Oliva. "GPU drivers remain as the most frequent offenders for new blobs: i915, adreno, amdgpu and radeo... (read more)
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