On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 13:32, Calvin Morrison <mutanttur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was just thinking about this while drinking my coffee.
>
> A few perspective problems :
>
> 1. Broadcom drivers that are more locked down than Mr. Manson.

The 3D part is - simple framebuffer should work, afaik.

> 2. The boot process is insanely weird. It's boots by bootstrapping the GPU
> or something crazy.

Not really - it's just that the GPU contains the controller chip, and
the first stage bootloader is thus written in it. It will happily load
anything that has Linux-style header and resides on first,
FAT-formatted dos partition on the SD card, afaik.

> 3. No cd-rom drive to do a CD install. Probably easy to work around (I've
> only installed it this way)

See above :)

> Calvin

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