On 03/21/2016 05:50 PM, André Silva wrote: > On 03/21/2016 05:32 PM, Isaac David wrote: >> Adjust Parabola to work with _any_ ARM board and adapt/accept _any_ >> application? >> (I guess by "adjusting the apps" Enrique is also referring to adding >> custom packages >> to something like [pcr]) >> >> This needs more clarification: >> >> For most boards we would probably be able to boot Linux-libre and run a >> normal >> Parabola GNU/Linux system, but I suspect there may be some others that >> _require_ >> custom (and even nonfree) kernels to even work at all! >> >> But there's something else we all know for sure we won't be able to >> support: bootloaders. >> Platforms like Samsung Exynos _need_ nonfree and signed bootloaders to >> work at all. Users >> are alone making sure they can boot Parabola from a proprietary >> bootloader. I mention this >> because I also received Enrique's previous mail off-list days ago, and >> if I recall correctly he >> is concerned with keeping things 100% free for his project. We can't >> magically free all the >> software in the odroids. > > FSF says that "Odroid-X, Odroid-X2, Odroid-U, Odroid-U2" requires > nonfree startup software since it uses the Samsung Exynos SoC [0], > however Enrique means about Odroid-XU4, Odroid-XU3 and Odriod-C1plus > that are other models and we should check if those boards don't uses the > Samsung Exynos SoC and can boot up from U-Boot ... > > [0]:https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers
I'm reading in Arch ARM site that Odroid-XU4 [0] and Odroid-XU3 [1] uses Samsung Exynos SoC and therefore it requires nonfree startup software to works, however Odroid-C1 [2] uses Amlogic SoC instead. We should looking for more info about Amlogic SoC if doesn't need nonfree stuff to bootup. [0]:https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/samsung/odroid-xu3 [1]:https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/samsung/odroid-xu4 [2]:https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/amlogic/odroid-c1
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