Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 03:30:16PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
>> 
>> Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>> >Bunnie Huang and others are working on a ARM-based laptop 'Novena' with
>> >open hardware and mostly open firmware:
>> ><http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2686>,
>> ><http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page>.
>> 
>> I'm very interested in this chipset and may have access to a
>> prototype of the Novena in late January for a couple days. I'd like
>> to do what I can to help get Debian running on it in a headless
>> no-blob configuration, or at least document any problems (assuming
>> the hardware team hasn't already finished the work at that point).
>
> Is the GPU blob needed even for setting up a dumb framebuffer and
> display generators, or is it only needed for accelerated rendering
> by the GPU?

I don't have a imx6 but my imx51/53 can run framebuffer (but no
acceleration) without any blob and imx6 should work in a same
way afaik. That's handled by the imx-drm IPUv3 driver in staging.


Arnaud


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