On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 18:47:04 -0300 Felipe Sanches <j...@members.fsf.org> wrote:
> This sounds pretty much non-sense to me. Maybe we have incompatible > definitions of what "firmware" means. So, to make my point clear, by > "firmware" I mean bare-metal software. That is... very low level > software that runs on the CPUs or microcontrollers of an electronics > board. And yes firmware can be free software. Libreboot is one famous > example of free firmware (in particular, bootcode). That is a good definition indeed that fits the most common kind of firmwares I can think of. With regard to firmwares types and software freedom we have: - 100% free software boot fimrwares like libreboot. It initialize enough hardware, to be able to load GNU/Linux. It does some very complicated stuff like initializing the RAM that Linux doesn't do. - Peripherals fimrwares. We have several free software fimrwares that respectively targets a particular chip. A very famous one is the ath9k_htc one which was liberated by the chip vendor thanks to people and companie(s) that worked to make it happen. Denis.
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