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Even the Raspberry pi has a few areas of concern with propriety firmware and closed codecs. It is not a completely open hardware platform, it does run code that
by PaulKeeble 6y ago
Even the Raspberry pi has a few areas of concern with propriety firmware and closed codecs. It is not a completely open hardware platform, it does run code that no eyes can see.
- oytis 6y agoGo Beaglebone then. The SBC market is enormous these days.
- abewfbaew 6y agoBeaglebone is even worse, with a PowerVR GPU and blobs to make the PRUs work correctly. It's pretty difficult to find a device with completely open drivers, let alone open firmwares and memory initialization.
- new_realist 6y agoThat's because completely open drivers have no value even to tech. enthusiasts. If they did, vendors would offer them.
- wishysgb 6y agoI do believe system76 laptops are almost completely open source other than the intel microcode.
- oytis 6y agoYes you're right finding open source GPU drivers is hard. Rock Pi 4 with panfrost?
- ip26 6y agoI don't entirely get the notion that computing has to be 100% open for anybody to learn anything. My pulling-back-the-curtain moment was booting Linux on an Xbox & hand building a VGA adapter. Had never touched Linux or a soldering iron before that. Was it easy, no, but that's literally what made it so engaging & educational.