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Hm, well I have always run it headless. Should be possible to make sure the GPU driver isn't ever loaded.
by inyorgroove 10y ago
Hm, well I have always run it headless. Should be possible to make sure the GPU driver isn't ever loaded.
- LukeShu 10y agoThe VC4 GPU actually is the primary chip; it boots the ThreadX operating system on the VC4 first, then ThreadX loads the user-configured system onto the ARM core. Whether you run headless or not, ThreadX is running on the VC4.
- erlehmann_ 10y ago> The Raspberry Pi boots from its GPU and only non-free software is currently available for the GPU, even starting the machine requires a large (2MB) blob of non-free, unsupportable software https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi
- ashitlerferad 10y agoAlso from that page: Broadcom publicly released some code, licensed as 3-Clause BSD, to aid the making of an open source GPU driver. The "rpi-open-firmware" effort to replace the VPU firmware blob started in 2016: https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware. See more at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11703842 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11703842