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by petecox
3220 days ago
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> we come to Qualcomm, Samsung, Mediatek, and whoever else is shipping proprietary drivers for their SoCs and radios, and who don't provide binaries for new ABIs. Vote with your wallet. The librem 5 mentioned this week uses a 'liberated' i.MX6 chip because they want a phone with an upstream kernel. Technology wise, it's a little long in the tooth, but they're emphasising it's possible to not reward vendors for bad behaviour. With RPi providing resources to de-blob and upstream the Pi, perhaps some entrepreneur will get behind a crowdfunded Broadcom based phone, with work underway on VC5. http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=BCM7268-DRM-W... |
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