5 Feb
2018
5 Feb
'18
5:49 p.m.
On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 12:39:57PM -0500, ronwirring@Safe-mail.net wrote:
Sifive has a mainboard for sale with a running riscv cpu. Many of the devices on the mainboard require non libre software.
What do you mean exactly?
- Do you mean that you'd need Microsemi's proprietary FPGA toolchain to re-generate the FPGA bitstream of the "southbridge" (which is not part of the mainboard, but arguably necessary in order to make good use of the board)?
- Or do you mean that some/many (important) hardware blocks are nonfree *hardware*?
- Or do you mean that nonfree firmware or drivers are required (which I've seen no indication of)?
Jonathan Neuschäfer