The two test boards provided were Beaglebone and Raspberry Pi. If someone is willing to donate a board which is capable of booting without blobs this project could be re-launched. I backed my work (e.g. mplayer-libre), prior to the git removal.
My current plan is to free several packages on my personal git and wait until a board comes along which is cable of running a fully free kernel that we can make tests on. Then this could continue at a later date. If you are willing to donate the All Winner, it may be worth testing. Ask Emulatorman if he can share his latest PKGBUILD of linux-libre with you. However be aware that if it requires a blob you might be left with a non-usable device. Make backups of the current SDCard. I do not have the full list of blobs, Emulatorman mentioned several in the IRC which were required for the two previous boards to operate. On 08/23/2015 07:44 AM, Josh Branning wrote: > 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. > >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev >> > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
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