GNU Linux-libre 5.10-gnu

[Alexandre Oliva]

GNU Linux-libre 5.10-gnu cleaning-up scripts, cleaned-up sources, and
cleaning-up logs (including tarball signatures) are now available from
our git-based release archive git://linux-libre.fsfla.org/releases.git/
tags {scripts,sources,logs}/v5.10-gnu.

Tarballs and incremental patches are also published at
<https://www.fsfla.org/selibre/linux-libre/download/releases/5.10-gnu/>.


The scripts are unchanged since first published for this cycle, last
weekend.

This was a reasonably busy cycle.  A new firmware-loading primitive was
introduced upstream, precompiled bpf code was added to the upstream tree
along with corresponding sources; amdgpu had tree rearrangements beside
the usual addition of new blobs; Intel i915 video and bluetooth hci
drivers request new blobs (disabled); firmware loading was disabled in
newly-added drivers for Cadence MHDP8546 DPI/DP bridge and for Marvell
Prestera switch; IMX SDMA, MLXSW Spectrum; Intel iwlwifi; Quallcomm
ath11k; Broadcom STM DPFE memory and Intel Haswell and HiFi2 sound had
some rearrangement in their blob loading code; new blobs have been
disabled in qcom aarch64 ports.



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Be Free! with GNU Linux-libre.


What is GNU Linux-libre?
------------------------

  GNU Linux-libre is a Free version of the kernel Linux (see below),
  suitable for use with the GNU Operating System in 100% Free
  GNU/Linux-libre System Distributions.
  http://www.gnu.org/distros/

  It removes non-Free components from Linux, that are disguised as
  source code or distributed in separate files.  It also disables
  run-time requests for non-Free components, shipped separately or as
  part of Linux, and documentation pointing to them, so as to avoid
  (Free-)baiting users into the trap of non-Free Software.
  http://www.fsfla.org/anuncio/2010-11-Linux-2.6.36-libre-debait

  Linux-libre started within the gNewSense GNU/Linux distribution.
  It was later adopted by Jeff Moe, who coined its name, and in 2008
  it became a project maintained by FSF Latin America.  In 2012, it
  became part of the GNU Project.

  The GNU Linux-libre project takes a minimal-changes approach to
  cleaning up Linux, making no effort to substitute components that
  need to be removed with functionally equivalent Free ones.
  Nevertheless, we encourage and support efforts towards doing so.
  http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LinuxLibre:Devices_that_require_non-free_firmware

  Our mascot is Freedo, a light-blue penguin that has just come out
  of the shower.  Although we like penguins, GNU is a much greater
  contribution to the entire system, so its mascot deserves more
  promotion.  See our web page for their images.
  http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/

What is Linux?
--------------

  Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel [...]

(snipped from Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst)

-- 
Alexandre Oliva, happy hacker  https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo/
   Free Software Activist         GNU Toolchain Engineer
        Vim, Vi, Voltei pro Emacs -- GNUlius Caesar