On 25/06/2019, 09:15:43, luigi scarso wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 12:15 AM Henri Menke <henrime...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 25/06/19 12:30 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
> > > just seen
> > > https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/
> > >
> > > I would like to know your impressions
> >
> > Does it still need proprietary binary blobs in the kernel?
>
>
> dunno
>
From the page you linked:
Raspberry Pi packages
[...]
- linux-firmware-raspi2 - GPU firmware bootloader files and pi 3 wifi
firmware file
- linux-raspi2 (linux-image-raspi2) - Linux kernel with patches from
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux
- u-boot-rpi - Provides u-boot.bin
- flash-kernel - Automatically copies the latest kernel, dtb file and
u-boot script to the pi's fat formatted GPU firmware partition
So yes, there is a whole bunch of non-free stuff required to even boot
the system.
>
> >
> > so it is as useless as all the models before because it can only
> > run their custom Raspbian distro.
> >
>
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RaspberryPi
> 18.04.2 both 32bit and 64bit work
>
> --
> luigi
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