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It's Now Possible to Boot Android on I.MX6 Platforms Without Proprietary Blobs
- grizzles 9y agoWhat are the other of the "very few" embedded SOCs that need no proprietary blobs to run? Mediatek? Also, how great a name is Robert Foss for someone who writes open source code for a living...
- robert_foss 9y agoMany SOCs are able to run with no blobs, but very few require no blobs while still offering graphics support. Some SOCs with Adreno or Vivante GPUs do however offer open source GPU support. Re being named Foss while working in Foss: It's a pure coincidence, but has a medieval feel to it. Like Baker, Coppersmith or Eisenhower.
- chuckdries 9y agoEisenhower?
- huxley 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower_(surname) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower_(surname) It means Iron Hewer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewer
- mijoharas 9y agoLet's not forget the theory of nominative determinism[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
- amiga-workbench 9y agoThe old TI OMAP chips were good for this too.
- wycx 9y agoAllwinner A10 and A20 pretty much just work, save for MALI. http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort#Status_Matrix http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort#Status_Matrix
- robert_foss 9y agoAuthor here, feel free to ask me things.
- Sir_Substance 9y agoThis is super-basic, but given pretty much the only words I recognize on that page are "android" and "mesa", what does this /mean/?
- robert_foss 9y agoIt means that the iMX6 platform now can run Android using an entirely open source software stack. It also paves the way for other platforms, and in general is another win for open source.
- zengid 9y agoThe original article is better at explaining things: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2017/06/05/android-nxp-imx6-buffer-modifier-support/ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2017/06/05/andr...
- robert_foss 9y agoThanks ;)
- endgame 9y agoDo you believe in nominative determinism?
- robert_foss 9y agoNo. Good question though.
- pdog 9y agoTo paraphrase Trotsky, you may not believe in nominative determinism, but nominative determinism believes in you.
- throwaway-1209 9y agoI'd love to see Ubuntu or Yocto support for this, with accelerated Wayland. Is that a possibility?
- robert_foss 9y agoThe same work that goes into this Android support also paves the way for Wayland on this hardware platform. But, I haven't run it myself yet.
- pg_is_a_butt 9y agohow long have you been in witness protection, and at what point did changing your name to FOSS and writing open source articles appeal to you?
- lawl 9y agoAn interesting target for postmarketOS: https://ollieparanoid.github.io/post/postmarketOS/ https://ollieparanoid.github.io/post/postmarketOS/