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Does Glass required proprietary binary blobs to be combined with the GPL source like the Nexus devices (pinning you to a narrow range of kernel versions), or is
by avar 14y ago
Does Glass required proprietary binary blobs to be combined with the GPL source like the Nexus devices (pinning you to a narrow range of kernel versions), or is it actually open through and through?
- fosap 14y agoAFAIK the glasses crippleware (as in TiVo), so it doesn't realy matter if free or not.
- myko 14y agoCould you elaborate? I have no idea what you're referencing.
- abrahamsen 14y agoProbably this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
- fosap 14y agoYes, exactly. I'm confused why i get downvotes. HN seemed to be very spare with downvotes, but it seems to be overrun by google fanboys.
- myko 14y agoAh, I see. I guess I will point out that this doesn't seem to be the case. As we see from this very post the kernel sources are released, and from the earlier posts we know Glass can be unlocked with the standard Nexus style 'fastboot oem unlock', so Glass (at least through Google, who knows what other OEMs might do) will be as open as Nexus phones from what we can tell.
- ibrahima 14y agoI don't know specifically about the drivers in Glass but it's based on the pretty old TI OMAP4 platform which was in the Galaxy Nexus, and I think out of the SoC manufacturers TI is (well, was, since they stopped making OMAP) the most open by far.
- edderly 14y agoThey'll be IMGTec blobs for the SGX GPU then edit/clarification: These won't be blobs in the kernel but they'll be IMGTec binary libraries. So in practice it's slightly less annoying for kernel hacking.
- ajross 14y agoRight, the PVR driver kernel component is GPL. It's the userspace that is proprietary.