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None of the RPi boards have been released as open source hardware, neither schematics nor layouts. One cannot even buy the chips from Broadcom. This is a practi
by jononor 9y ago
None of the RPi boards have been released as open source hardware, neither schematics nor layouts. One cannot even buy the chips from Broadcom. This is a practical problem if trying to base a phone of it.
EDIT, example of boards that have do sources available: https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/open-source-hardware https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/open-source-ha...
- ZenoArrow 9y ago> "EDIT, example of boards that have do sources available: https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/open-source-hardware https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/open-source-ha... " There's no usable open source driver for Mali GPUs (the Lima project got the closest, but it's stalled: https://limadriver.org/ https://limadriver.org/ ), so the A20 does not have "sources available".