Linux-libre makes some... odd... choices in deblobbing. The most recent one that bit me was the new rtw driver which includes literal GPL licensed blobs as C fi

Linux-libre makes some... odd... choices in deblobbing. The most recent one that bit me was the new rtw driver which includes literal GPL licensed blobs as C files full of binary arrays. Users are absolutely free to modify and reveng these but lin-lib got rid of them because their purpose is opaque. It is, obviously, but that is just poorly documented free software and if we're going to start ripping that out there isn't going to be much at all left. As it is if you want wifi you have to find an older Atheros (pre ath10k) or older realtek (pre 88XX) device, and these are decidedly thin on the ground; I just spent two days crawling through stacks of laptops at Sim Lim in Singapore before I found one.