[Arm-netbook] PYRA

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton

2016-07-30 14:40:05 UTC

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On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Wolfgang Romey (hier)

Post by Wolfgang Romey (hier)
Hello,
Texas Instruments OMAP 5 SoC
2x ARM Cortex-M4
PowerVR™ SGX544-MP2
Vivante GC320 2D Accelerator
Can anybody tell me which of this Hardware contains proprietary hardware and
which of the manufactors are gpl-violaters?

i don't believe they'd be silly enough to use gpl-violating code in
the pyra. the powervr GPU is however proprietary. the vivante GC320
has been reverse-engineered quite a while ago. slightly more
importantly is external peripherals such as WIFI

https://www.pyra-handheld.com/wiki/index.php?title=WiFi
so the firmware is here:
https://github.com/TI-OpenLink/firmwares/tree/master/ti-connectivity

highly unlikely that they provide source.

don't know if the OMAP5 requires proprietary bootloader sequences....
would be surprised if it did: TI are quite good about not needing
that. their SoCs end up in military equipment so having them be
software-programmable or dependent on some external IC to tell the
processor to boot? generally bad...

so this *could* be RYF Endorseable (by leaving out the PowerVR
libraries and associated kernel modules).... if they hadn't included
the hard-wired WIFI peripheral. if they can manufacture versions of
the pyra that don't include that, they could actually apply for RYF
Certification.

l.

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