On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 07:35:49PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > On 31.08.2017 16:40, [email protected] wrote: > > >I doubt it will be owner controlled, as their laptops aren't - they still > >haven't even gotten a blobbed version of coreboot working (blobbed init > >code + ME enabled as they insisted on a crappy intel soc) > >Purism isn't a trustworthy company. > > Don't know anything about that company, but in general x86 boards > are much harder to bring up than ARMs. I only know very few completely > custom x86 boards with open firmware - in ARM world that's daily > business. > > The actually hard part w/ phones is creating a very small and power > efficient board, that's a much bigger challenge than the usual > embedded boards. > > There're several parties out there creating an open phone hw, lets > see how that plays out. > > IMHO, we should now concentrate on the OS, maybe port the android > runtime to GNU platform. That should give us an GUI and applet > framework. Or we start afresh with a plan9-inspired approach.
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