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> 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 no
by 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