If you're looking a 100% free kernel for your GNU/Linux operating system, you can now download the latest GNU Linux-Libre 4.16 kernel, which is based on the recently released Linux 4.16 kernel, but without any proprietary blobs.The GNU Linux-Libre 4.16 kernel is here for all those who seek 100% freedom for their personal computer and don't want to use any proprietary drivers. It brings all the goodies from the Linux 4.16 kernel, which was released over the weekend by Linus Torvalds himself, though it brings the usual deblobbing changes, as well as a slightly revamped request_firmware mechanism.
"The major piece of news in this release is that the request_firmware machinery was slightly reworked, so that the reject_firmware variants return the expected -ENOENT, instead of -EINVAL; and reject_firmware_nowait now calls the named callback," said Alexandre Oliva in the release announcement. ... (read more)
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