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More hardware platforms that can be supported. The potential of a brand new OpenWrt/DDWRT like project for TVs is attractive, especially for Vizio TVs (which ar
by Conan_Kudo 10mo ago
More hardware platforms that can be supported. The potential of a brand new OpenWrt/DDWRT like project for TVs is attractive, especially for Vizio TVs (which are extremely common and their factory software is terrible).
- wmf 10mo agoThe context here is that (1) Linux allows proprietary drivers so even if they release all the code they're required to release it probably won't include drivers that TVs need and (2) code released by embedded vendors is very low quality so you'd have to spend years cleaning it up.
- Conan_Kudo 10mo agoLinux does not allow proprietary drivers. The fact that people do it anyway is a separate issue.
- firesteelrain 10mo agoI don’t know how Linux can function on modern hardware. It requires modules in some cases like Broadcom WiFi that are proprietary.
- singpolyma3 10mo agoThat's firmware blobs not drivers in that case.