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The same could be said about the VideoCore 4 blob which was used to boot the SoC. And yet they just did get rid of it.
by HeadsUpHigh 7y ago
The same could be said about the VideoCore 4 blob which was used to boot the SoC. And yet they just did get rid of it.
- makomk 7y agoI don't think they got rid of the blob, so much as moved it from the SD card to an onboard SPI flash more like you'd find on a typical PC. It's still there and even more required to boot the board than on previous Pis, but people distributing images no longer have to worry about the licensing and other headaches that were caused by having to include it.
- HeadsUpHigh 7y agoThere's a mainline driver that according to their own statements is now used for the gpu. Whether there's a firmware blob underneath it is a whole other story and as long as it's not something that has to be distributed with the OS I don't see how it should be treated any different than e.g. the AMD or intel gpus.