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It would be interesting to get RMS' thoughts on this project. Finally the prospect of fully Free mainstream computers looks like it's becoming a reality.
by Lio 10y ago
It would be interesting to get RMS' thoughts on this project.
Finally the prospect of fully Free mainstream computers looks like it's becoming a reality.
- BuuQu9hu 10y agohttps://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-hardware-designs.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-hardware-designs.html It will be a while before RISC-V is supported by Free Software distributions and a while before hardware will be available to buy.
- groks 10y agoDone! https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2016/10/15/fedorarisc-v-is-finished/ https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2016/10/15/fedorarisc-v-is-finish...
- asb 10y agoI hope we'll be 'Respect Your Freedom' compliant https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-f.... This is of course trivial for our core SoC, where we have no intention of relying on binary blobs. It just may affect our selection of external parts, e.g. WiFi chips. I often relate the way we're going about this to the early days of the GNU project. Our ultimate aim is an SoC where all of the RTL for every component is open source, though it may be that just like GNU which iteratively replaced proprietary components of Unix we may need to have some intermediate stepping stones. e.g. an SoC with a proprietary USB controller, until an appropriate open replacement can be written and verified.