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So is the modem/baseband the only non-open firmware on there? I think most phones will also have proprietary boot firmware and GPU drivers.
by jiggunjer 6y ago
So is the modem/baseband the only non-open firmware on there? I think most phones will also have proprietary boot firmware and GPU drivers.
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- fsflover 6y agoBoth Pinephone and Librem 5 have open GPU drivers and boot firmware. However they have proprietary WiFI/Bluetooth drivers. For the latter, Pinephone is using blobs in Linux, while Librem 5 made the firmware part of hardware (non-updatable), trying to get Respects Your Freedom certification from FSF.
- rhn_mk1 6y agoThe Librem 5 WiFi drivers are Free Software though.
- fsflover 6y agoYou are right, my mistake. I am speaking about firmware, not drivers.
- MartijnBraam 6y agoThe blobs on the pinephone don't run _in_ linux, they are just uploaded to the wifi chip on boot (it's a firmware patch, not full firmware)
- fsflover 6y agoTrue, but FSF still would not accept it as fully free OS: https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guideli...