RPi isn't FPGA, it is SoC with ARM1176 core.
2013/10/26 Peter (peabo) Olson <[email protected]> > 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 >
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