On Monday 22 October 2012 22:08:29 [email protected] wrote: > Hum :s... Then it is worse than I taught :S...
Yeah, I found out as a consequence of buying one based on a Cambridge University (UK) Fresher's ARM assembler course that has enough documentation to write a basic unaccelerated 2D driver for the display and a serial driver for the GPIO port. There sitting in the FAT boot partition is proprietary boot firmware used before the kernel is loaded. I was one seriously unhappy bunny. It's not as though even giving away an unethical computer is acceptable. I'd recommend the Genesi Efika MX Smarttop I bought instead, sadly it has been discontinued. The drivers for the Freescale SoC are AFAICT freely licensed even though Freescale hasn't got them into mainline kernel yet. Plus the boot flash / 'bios' is the free uboot IIRC. Only the codecs for the GPU acceleration are proprietary, I can live without those. Andrew M. 'Leny' Lindley
