On October 26, 2013 at 4:02 AM Richard Quirk <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/26/13, Bradley D. Thornton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > We can keep hoping though, can't we? Think Raspberry Pi, right? :) > > > > You might not have read this, it seems the Raspberry Pi has some big > freedom problems too. > > https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers > > """ > The Raspberry Pi requires nonfree software to start up. It can't reach > the point of executing free software unless this nonfree program is > part of the installed system software.
I was imagining that the freedom problem was further back. The RPi is an FPGA, isn't it? Most development systems for FPGA are highly proprietary. How does the RPi get its initial program load? (Or, perhaps, it is in fixed ROM.) peabo _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
