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Why would Pine64 care in anyway about the buyout ?
by JustFinishedBSG 6y ago
Why would Pine64 care in anyway about the buyout ?
- fsflover 6y agoBecause Nvidia has a bad history concerning open source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia#Open-source_software_support https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia#Open-source_software_su...
- solarkraft 6y agoThis doesn't really matter in the mid term. Documentation is mostly a thing of the chip manufacturer and that has already been horrible, but worked around by the Linux community.
- CameronNemo 6y agoThey use Rockchip and Allwinner chips in their devices. Neither supplier has a perpetual license on the ARM ISA, and both suppliers use ARM Cortex-A CPU designs. Furthermore the Pinephone, Pinebook Pro, Rock64, and RockPro64 boards use Mali graphics. The deal could have a significant effect on who they end up sourcing SoCs from, and what IP is on those SoCs.