A Latin American Free Software Foundation published a fully free version of the Linux kernel 6.13 — Linux-libre 6.13-gnu, cleaned of firmware and driver elements containing non-free components or code snippets limited by the manufacturer. In Linux-libre, kernel functions for loading external non-free components not included in the kernel supply are also disabled, and references to using non-free components have been removed from the documentation.
To clean the kernel from non-free parts, the Linux-libre project has created a universal shell script that contains thousands of templates for detecting the presence of binary inserts and excluding false positives. Ready-made patches, created based on the use of the aforementioned script, are also available for download. The Linux-libre kernel is recommended for use in distributions that meet the Free Software Foundation's criteria for building fully free GNU/Linux distributions. For example, Linux-libre is used in distributions such as Dragora Linux, Trisquel, Dyne:Bolic, gNewSense, Parabola, Musix, and Kongoni.
The Linux-libre 6.13-gnu release includes code for cleaning blobs in the new rtw8812a, rtw8821a, bmi270, aw88081, ntp8835, ntp8918 drivers. The names of blobs in dts files (device tree) for the Aarch64 architecture have been cleaned. The code for removing blobs in the wilc1000, rt1320, sh4-siu, ivpu, btnxpuart, adreno, and r8169 drivers has been updated, as well as in the code related to touch screen support on x86 architecture systems. The cleaning of the rtl8192e, rtl8712, vt6656, and ti-st drivers has been discontinued, as they have been removed from the kernel.
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