On 23/08/15 14:14, Luke wrote:
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.
I have two in-fact, but it may be easier giving a donation for the cost
of one (can't be bothered to ship it myself). Do you have a donations
system set up yet?
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