| > Please correct me if I'm wrong. My memory told me it was the GPU that needed the blobs. So I asked at DDG https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=binary+blobs+and+the+Raspbe... Turned up this: https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi and it says... > All Raspberry Pi models before the 4 (1A, 1B, 1A+, 1B+, Zero, Zero W, 2, 3, Zero 2 W) boot from their GPU (not from the CPU!), so they require a non-free binary blob to boot So the 4 (and I suppose the 5, if it ever actually comes...) Goes on to say: > Since then, Broadcom publicly released some code, licensed as 3-Clause BSD, to aid the making of an open source GPU driver. The "rpi-open-firmware" effort to replace the VPU firmware blob started in 2016. See more at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11703842 . Unfortunately development of rpi-open-firmware is currently (2021-06) stalled. So there you are. Not wrong, are you, but not strictly correct, depending on "...to run properly" definition https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware has updates 3-months ago |