Linux 5.8 is one of the biggest releases in a while but that newly-stable kernel also means a lot of the new drivers need to be stripped out or otherwise modified over being reliant on binary-only firmware/microcode or contingent upon other dependencies deemed not free to the Free Software Foundation standards. GNU Linux-libre 5.8-gnu was released today by Alexandre Oliva of the FSF Latin America team. The deblobbed GNU-blessed Linux 5.8 kernel is available from fsfla.org.
— source phoronix.com | 3 Aug 2020