We've never closed this bug with Marvell and we bring it up periodically--most recently I believe that David Woodhouse spoke up about the issue. In the meantime, I believe that Albert among others is also making progress on a FOSS replacement.
The other embedded system that contains some non-FOSS code is the embedded controller. We're making some progress, slowly, along that front as well. I am unaware of any non-FOSS firmware and as far as I know, all of the system-level and user-space software on the machine is FOSS. Have we somehow overlooked something? -walter On Jan 10, 2008 4:24 PM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see on http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/46 that there is a plan for > replacing > the proprietary microkernel in the Marvell wireless firmware with > something > Free so that, as I understand it, the OLPC XO can be the first computer > to > be delivered running only Free Software. > > In private conversation with Richard Stallman, he told me that this is > the only obstacle to him supporting the project fully. I see rather > sporadic activity on the bug, but Walter has just said that we can > reopen this with Marvell in bug 429. > > Anybody? > > -- > Edward Cherlin > Earth Treasury: End Poverty at a Profit > http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ > "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Walter Bender One Laptop per Child http://laptop.org
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