On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 12:23:28PM -0700, Kip Warner wrote: > On Sun, 2013-07-21 at 12:15 -0700, Matt Turner wrote: > > It has a Radeon 3200. 3D acceleration requires a little firmware for > > the ring buffer or some such. > > > > The drivers themselves are all Free Software, including the kernel > > modesetting DRM driver, the 2D device-dependent X driver, and the 3D > > OpenGL driver. > > Hey Matt, > > That's good enough for me, but there's someone in particular who would > benefit from a more capable machine than what they are dependent on > now. I'm thinking about RMS on his Yeeloong. It's a nice machine, but > very slow and no real graphics capabilities. Even though the 3A / 8133 > drivers are entirely libre, he still won't make a compromise, even for > a small data structure like a ring buffer. > > How difficult do you think it would be to replace the firmware with a > libre replacement?
Maybe the firmware could be put into a ROM, for it to become hardware? ;) In any case, that binary blob won't compromise the OS security. So it allows quite a freedom already, I think. Regards, Lluís. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "loongson-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/loongson-dev. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
