Hi Einfach, On 2 February 2015 at 07:43, Einfach Jemand <rru....@gmail.com> wrote: > Am 02.02.2015 um 15:20 schrieb Janne Johansson: >> But it still requires a blob to actually run, does it not? >> >> The fact that there is docs for the blob isn't as important as being forced >> to have someone elses code running alongside your kernel in order to even >> boot it, let alone produce graphics on it. >> >> >> 2015-02-02 13:47 GMT+01:00 Lampshade <lampsh...@poczta.fm>: >> >>> Hi >>> New version of Raspberry Pi is announced. Its SoC have four cores in >>> Cortex-A7 microarchitecture so it is compatible with ARMv7. It also have 1 >>> GB of RAM. Have the same GPU as its predecessor: VideoCore IV 3d. For some >>> time GPU have open documentation and open (BSD licence) driver in Linux >>> world. Price is still $35. It should be electrically compatible with >>> predecessor and have the same dimensions. >>> Are you going to support this hardware in OpenBSD? >>> >>> >> >> > > Hmm, isn't an "unknown blob" involved in every access to a hard-disc be > it spinning rust or SSD and the protocol involved ATA, SATA, SCSI or FC? > I haven't seen one disc yet where the firmware of the interface > controller was open sourced or even 'freely' documented. (Of course that > could simply be because I did not search hard enough to find one...) > > Or is this outside the scope since there is a well behaved (and > documented) programming interface that keeps you away for the internal > operations of the device? > > Sometimes for me the discussion of "libre hardware" seems moot - you > would have to start with sand and your own fab and thoroughly document > every step of designing and manufacturing a chip in order to get there. >
My two cents: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=132788027403910&w=2 > My 2 cents > rru > -- ------- inum: 883510009027723 sip: jungleboo...@sip2sip.info xmpp: jungle-boo...@jit.si
