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Re:Building a faster, smarter, Chromebook experience with th... by fransje26 on Thursday June 13, 2024 @05:59AM (#40667742)
The linux kernel is full of binary blobs. For better or worse..
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Re:Building a faster, smarter, Chromebook experience with th... by ungamedplayer on Thursday June 13, 2024 @06:55AM (#40668052)
Do you mean the firmware repo?

Because I don't remember seeing any in the source code... But ist be looking at the wrong place.

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Re:Building a faster, smarter, Chromebook experience with th... by anthk on Thursday June 13, 2024 @08:51AM (#40669033)
The TGZ it's full of blobs.
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Re:Building a faster, smarter, Chromebook experience with th... by 1oooqooq on Thursday June 13, 2024 @11:28AM (#40670854)
anti gpl bots don't know the difference. they usually can't read code either.

you're correct, only firmware tree have binary blobs.

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Re:Building a faster, smarter, Chromebook experience with th... by fransje26 on Friday June 14, 2024 @09:16AM (#40680638)
Ah. That would depend on the definition of "Linux kernel" then, yes.

You are right, in the firmware tree, not in the pure kernel itself.

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