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AFAIK rk3399 is especial in this area: its codecs need no binary blobs. This means it can encourage other vendors to do the same and get ryf-certified. ARM SBCs
by marcodiego 5y ago
AFAIK rk3399 is especial in this area: its codecs need no binary blobs. This means it can encourage other vendors to do the same and get ryf-certified. ARM SBCs based on rk3399 can become the only modern affordable systems with ryf certification.
- rjsw 5y agoI don't think the Allwinner codecs need binary blobs.
- Teknoman117 5y agoNow if only the standard release for PineBook Pro would use newer than a 5.7 kernel so we could get hardware codecs. Might just have to sit down and figure out how to cross compile Gentoo for it.
- CameronNemo 5y agoI mean compiling your own kernel and compiling the OS are very different. I am running 5.14 on my PBP right now. No support for external displays, though.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoYou don't need to go full Gentoo to install a custom kernel. From Manjaro you could even pull the linux-mainline AUR package and just build+install that (or linux-git or any of the others), if you want the easy way out.
- Teknoman117 5y agoIt was more of a "there are a ton of packages which also need to be patched" kind of thing as well.
- marcodiego 5y agoTry armbian