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authorLeah Woods <info@minifree.org>2016-05-17 20:20:57 (EDT)
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<?php
/*
Frequently asked questions
- Copyright (C) 2015 Leah Woods <info@minifree.org>
+ Copyright (C) 2015, 2016 Leah Woods <info@minifree.org>
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
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<body>
<div id="pagetop">
-
- <h1>GNU Libreboot</h1>
- <p>
- We are working to make libreboot eligible to be added to the <a href="https://gnu.org/">GNU system</a>,
- and call on the community to help with this effort. <a href="../">Back to home page</a>
- </p>
- <p>
- Firstly, the git repositories (for development) can be found on the <a href="../git/">git page</a>.
- </p>
- <p>
- Libreboot has been 100% philosophically compatible with GNU, from the day the project was founded (our goal is identical to GNU,
- and our philosophy is identical to the one held by that project), but there are some
- technical issues with it that make it incompatible with GNU at present.
- </p>
- <h2>
- So far, we have the following tasks to complete (there may be other tasks):
- </h2>
- <ul class="c">
- <li>
- Convert the documentation to texinfo - partially complete. The docs have been converted using pandoc,
- but now require a serious cleanup.
- We wish to merge these into 1 documentation file (manual) in texinfo file.
- The <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/">texinfo manual</a> itself
- is an example of how we would like to implement the new libreboot documentation. One file, but we
- will distribute it separated into separate pages/sections,
- and in other formats in addition to HTML. (info, PDF, etc). The current live documentation on the
- libreboot website is the old pre-conversion documentation,
- written in raw HTML. To encourage the transition, we are now refusing all new documentation submissions
- that are not in texinfo format.
- <ul>
- <li>Texinfo is the official documentation format, for all GNU software.</li>
- <li>GNU Emacs has decent integration for editing Texinfo documents. See <em>Texinfo mode</em>.
- However, any text editor should be fine (the lead developer of libreboot uses Vim).</li>
- <li>
- i18n should be implemented from the start, so that we can start maintaining versions of the documentation
- in non-English languages. GNU Gettext can be used for this.
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- <li>
- Modify the build system, to make use of standard GNU utilities: make, autoconf and so on. The current build system is
- non-standard (but well documented), written mostly in BASH.Read these documents:
- <ul>
- <li><a href="https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Standard-Targets.html">https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Standard-Targets.html</a></li>
- <li><a href="https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Distributions">https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Distributions</a></li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- <li>
- <s>Document, extensively (and keep it up to date!) full and accurate information about package dependencies, libraries used, etc.
- We already do this to a great extent (via an installation script for Trisquel and Parabola, and the overall build system in libreboot),
- but we can do a better job documentation-wise.</s>
- </li>
- <li>
- <s>Include ChangeLog and NEWS files in the distribution (in the release archives, but probably uncessary in the git repository).
- ChangeLog entries can be generated automatically, using the gnulib gitlog-to-changelog script, and the NEWS file can be generated
- from commit messages.</s> - DONE!
- </li>
- <li>
- <s>Re-license the documentation under GNU FDL.</s> - DONE!
- </li>
- <li>
- <s>Make libreboot possible to build from source without network access.</s> - DONE! (Only in release archives.
- Development in Git requires network access, for downloading the extra modules that go into the release archives. There is no way to avoid
- this, due to what libreboot actually is - a boot firmware distribution, combining several projects, much like you have <em>GNU/Linux</em> distributions
- which are identical in concept).
- </li>
- </ul>
- <h2>
- Not required, technically, but will make things easier in general, not just for GNU:
- </h2>
- <ul class="c">
- <li>
- Modify the build system, to
- directly download the
- build dependencies
- that libreboot
- currently tells the
- user to install from
- their distribution
- package repository.
- (Only in Git. Release
- archives would have
- them already). Build
- these from source,
- with our own GCC
- (re-using coreboot's
- GCC, which libreboot
- already uses). This
- will make <em>complete
- corresponding
- source</em> provision
- easier, because it
- would be automated;
- this is in contrast to
- the present setup,
- where the person
- distributing binaries
- has to include the
- sources for build
- dependencies from the
- distribution that they
- happened to use for
- compiling those
- packages.
-
- <ul>
- <li>This will also make everything self-contained, and coreboot already has integration for cross-compiling. We can make cross compilation
- of utilities for non-x86 architectures much easier, without relying on quirks from the user's GNU/Linux distribution, where the
- only thing we need from their distribution is the necessary toolchain for building <em>libreboot's own version of GCC</em>, which would then take over</li>
- <li>
- However, do not install these dependencies, only self-host them in the libreboot source archive. Also provide an option for the user to ignore libreboot's
- GCC and dependencies, and use what their GNU/Linux distribution provides, when building from source.
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
+ <p>
+ This page used to list tasks for joining the GNU project. Libreboot
+ is since 14 May 2016 an official part of the GNU project.
+ </p>
</div>
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