> Mm, interesting. By the way, the new yeeloong I previously made a > topic of has been released, yet with very few media coverage and an > inappropriate price -> > http://www.tekmote.nl/epages/61504599.sf/nl_NL/?ObjectPath=/Shops/61504599/Products/CFL-008
The GPU is a problem (the boot firmware includes a copy of its nonfree VGA BIOS which the kernel uses for modesetting, nonfree microcode is needed for optional acceleration; the first problem might be much easier than the second one to solve). There is also no information on what wifi chipset is used (or what handles the "SIM card port"). A gNewSense developer considers the HDMI support a problem, I don't know the details. > But in an utopic situation, do we have a more freedom-oriented > architecture other than loongson? I'm not much into ARM chips myself, > but I wanted to know the freedom perspective of the other chinese > project, Allwinner, which also comes at a more commendable cost. (Mali > graphics driver is being reverse engineered already.) http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/orders/ suggests the GPU being the only problem (and maybe the MPEG decoder which also isn't needed). Nearly all ARM chips have GPUs requiring nonfree software (although these are usually optional, unlike on Raspberry Pi), they also have optional support for tivoization used on most end user devices like phones.
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