On 25/06/2019, 09:15:43, luigi scarso wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 12:15 AM Henri Menke <henrime...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 25/06/19 12:30 AM, luigi scarso wrote: > > > just seen > > > https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/ > > > > > > I would like to know your impressions > > > > Does it still need proprietary binary blobs in the kernel? > > > dunno >
From the page you linked: Raspberry Pi packages [...] - linux-firmware-raspi2 - GPU firmware bootloader files and pi 3 wifi firmware file - linux-raspi2 (linux-image-raspi2) - Linux kernel with patches from https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux - u-boot-rpi - Provides u-boot.bin - flash-kernel - Automatically copies the latest kernel, dtb file and u-boot script to the pi's fat formatted GPU firmware partition So yes, there is a whole bunch of non-free stuff required to even boot the system. > > > > > so it is as useless as all the models before because it can only > > run their custom Raspbian distro. > > > > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RaspberryPi > 18.04.2 both 32bit and 64bit work > > -- > luigi > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net > archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________