Op 30-09-15 om 22:15 schreef Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli: > On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 01:56:38 +0200 > Paul van der Vlis <p...@vandervlis.nl> wrote: > >> I found out that on my device (Galaxy Nexus) not only the wifi drivers >> where needed to get wifi working. I did also need the "ducati-m3.bin", >> firmware for "Hardware media encoding/decoding". Not sure why. >> For my phone, I found information about the firmware on [2], but you >> can also find much information using Google. > This "ducati" microcontroller is inside the OMAP4 SOC, and if I > remember well, it uses shared memory with the main CPU. > > I've not looked at the OMAP4 manual, so I don't know if anything > prevents this "ducati" microcontroller from being able to read the > main CPU's RAM.
Hmm, you are right. I've too easily installed that firmware. > While the firmwares are supposed to run on a peripheral processor, you > still have more risks when using non-free firmware. > > In Cyanogenmod, some proprietary libraries ended up in the firmware > directory, and were ran by free software code that went into Replicant. > So when you added this .so into your device's firmware directory, the > main CPU executed that proprietary library without you even knowing it. I have not installed an .so. I don't use the Galaxy Nexus anymore, I use a Galaxy S3 now because I wanted a camera. I will take a critical look at the firmware I am using. Thanks for your info! Paul van der Vlis. -- Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer Groningen https://www.vandervlis.nl/ _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list Replicant@lists.osuosl.org http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
