Hello and thank you FreeBSD devs and supporters for providing a forum for me to ask this question. This is my first post here. I come from Linux (specifically, Debian) and when Debian voted to get on the bus with systemd, I grabbed my bags and started hitchhiking back towards the freedom that I was seeking when I left windows/mac. Well, that ride has brought me here, and I have a couple of concerns.
I had been using the Linux-libre kernel until Debian moved all the binary blobs into non-free with Wheezy, then I ran the kernel provided by Debian with no issues. I run hardware that needs no proprietary firmware (in Linux), so I avoid it. Because I can.
I understand that FreeBSD includes binary blobs and my question is simply.... Is there an effort anywhere to provide a FreeBSD kernel that is deblobbed? You know, a version of the kernel I could install that contains no undocumented, binary firmware.
Thanks for any responses,
D4rren
I had been using the Linux-libre kernel until Debian moved all the binary blobs into non-free with Wheezy, then I ran the kernel provided by Debian with no issues. I run hardware that needs no proprietary firmware (in Linux), so I avoid it. Because I can.
I understand that FreeBSD includes binary blobs and my question is simply.... Is there an effort anywhere to provide a FreeBSD kernel that is deblobbed? You know, a version of the kernel I could install that contains no undocumented, binary firmware.
Thanks for any responses,
D4rren