Linux Libre in Debian

[Luke Yasuda]

Hi all,

I also have been lurking on this list.

 From my limited experience working on maintaining the kernel build for 
gcc423.cfarm.net for the past 1.5 year or so, all linux releases for 
stable-security can just be done for linux-libre, with changes limited 
to debian/changelog, or very occasionally a single patch added in 
debian/patches, which can be applied with no conflict. LTS kernels are 
stable and easy to maintain. If the Debian security team raises concerns 
about it, anyone can quote my words as proof.

gcc423 (cfarm423) has been shadowing the linux release in trixie, back 
when trixie was in testing. gcc423 uses a PAGESIZE=64k arm64 
(linux-libre) kernel which is not available in Debian.

If linux-libre is available in Debian, I would like to switch to 
linux-libre on those Debianish machines I host for the gcc compile farm 
(cfarm420..430).

Even though I was told by someone last year, "we dont want to steer 
people towards Debian, we want to steer people away from Debian and 
towards FSDG certified distros", while this also is a valid reason, I 
fully support Simon's efforts for the reasons Simon stated. If a DD 
wants to start a "linux-libre kernel team" in Debian, count me in.


Cheers,
-- 
Luke Yasuda
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