On 23/08/15 04:47, Michał Masłowski wrote:
RNC patches which
are required for the kernel to run on ARM computers
Not true.
You can read more information about blobs on ARM devices here:
https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers
We support x86 while many systems there need blobs for optional graphics
acceleration, and nearly all have nonfree boot firmware.
These boards, including Raspberry Pi, actually REQUIRE the blobs in
order to boot. Therefore until a blob-free board is available, we are
unable to continue our work. This is unfortunate, but the current
situation of hardware doesn't allow a true GNU/Linux-libre kernel.
Boards using TI or AllWinner SoCs don't have such blobs. Please list
specific blobs which are the issue.
(For AM335x used in BeagleBone Black, there is a small power management
firmware under a nonfree license, but the SoC documentation suggests it
being needed only for suspend to RAM which I don't believe is normally
useful on that board. Regardless of this, that firmware looks easy to
replace.)
+1
I have the olinuxino-lime which has a AllWinner A10 chip and it uses
u-boot, and framebuffer, so theoretically there would be no blobs. At
the moment it runs arch linux arm, but I would prefer parabola.
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