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On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Wolfgang Romey (hier) hier@wolfgangromey.de wrote:
Hello,
I found this on the PYRA-Homepage:
Texas Instruments OMAP 5 SoC
2x ARM Cortex-A15 @ 1.5Ghz with NEON SIMD 2x ARM Cortex-M4 PowerVR™ SGX544-MP2 Vivante GC320 2D AcceleratorCan 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.