On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 12:00 AM, John Luke Gibson eaterjolly@gmail.com> wrote: Right now I'm looking at CHIP-buildroot. I'm planning on patching out any blobs and also anything not CHIP related (as we don't want a person to accidentally think the script will give them a blobless cubieboard or anything).
On 10 May 2017 09:40:02 GMT+03:00, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote: there's already a libre version of the linux kernel which has this done already. look up the linux kernel that parabola uses.
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 12:05:33PM +0300, Allan Mwenda wrote: Free Software Foundation Latin America Linux-Libre.
Good idea! To use an already existing and "official" kernel will save time, add credibility and transparency.
The link to the mentioned page of FSF Latin America is: https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/
With any non-Chip-kernel you will lose NAND support. So you can either: a)patch your libre kernel or b) ignore NAND and use flash memory via usb port.
For b) you will need mainline U-Boot because NextThings U-Boot fork supports NAND but not booting via usb.
Pablo