Re: [Libreboot] linux-generic / linux-libre question

[Andrew 'Leny' Lindley]

From: Andy Wills <address@hidden>
Subject: [Libreboot] linux-generic / linux-libre question
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 23:07:56 +0000
> First post to this list, so apologies if this is a bit 'noob'. I
> followed the instructions for full disk encryption here:
> 
> https://libreboot.org/docs/gnulinux/encrypted_trisquel.html
> 
> and it all worked fine on my Thinkpad X200, but now I worry a bit about
> this instruction:
> 
> "Installation will ask what kernel you want to use. linux-generic is
> fine".
> 
> I followed that instruction. In retrospect, I wonder whether there was
> an option such as 'linux-libre' which would have been a better choice? 
> 
> Any help/advice gratefully received.

All the kernels in the Trisquel repo have had the FSFLA linux-libre
scripts run against them.  Thus linux-generic is a kind of
linux-libre++. 

linux-libre also happens to be the beginning of the name of the forward
kernel packages built for Trisquel by jxself[1].  However, there's no
real reason I can think of to be running one of those on any of the
libreboot supported devices.

Leny

[1] https://jxself.org/linux-libre/