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How is it open hardware if they're using an ARM CPU? I don't see a link anywhere to the open source firmware, but I'm admittedly on mobile.
by tw04 8y ago
How is it open hardware if they're using an ARM CPU? I don't see a link anywhere to the open source firmware, but I'm admittedly on mobile.
- monocasa 8y agoColloquially, schematics, board layout files, and the ability for the user to replace any firmware that the developer can is the bar for open hardware. Here's their firmware: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/turris/openwrt https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/turris/openwrt
- subway 8y agoAlso of note is the specific SoC used by the Omnia -- Marvell A385. It's a really neat chip that you can fully bring up not only without vendor binary blobs, but even using strictly the mainline versions of u-boot, and linux. https://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=configs/turris_omnia_defconfig;h=aad80447821bb778126e159a3d14b3e4821afcd2;hb=HEAD https://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=configs/turris_om... https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-385-turris-omnia.dts https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...