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Parts bought with Atheros are still OSS-freindly. What are Qualcomm other WiFi offers? I mean, for PC, not embedded into smartphone chips. Broadcom and Realte
by blacklion 2y ago
Parts bought with Atheros are still OSS-freindly.
What are Qualcomm other WiFi offers? I mean, for PC, not embedded into smartphone chips.
Broadcom and Realtek is not better. Intel is not too great too (blobs in firmware, etc).
- yencabulator 2y agoBroadcom might be the worst. Firmware uploaded to a device CPU isn't really a problem as long as the blobs can be distributed, pretending that adding flash to every gadget to store the same blob makes a gadget better is just naive. I for one would prefer stateless peripherals.