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The Raspberry Pi having a non-closed bootchain, let alone a free driver is a feat of tens of thousands of people pressuring Broadcom, and a few people doing the
by metilda 9y ago
The Raspberry Pi having a non-closed bootchain, let alone a free driver is a feat of tens of thousands of people pressuring Broadcom, and a few people doing the hard work to free as much of the RPI as they could.
Having to run Raspbian just to boot the board was a dark time!
- bob_theslob646 9y ago>Having to run Raspbian just to boot the board was a dark time! Is this some sort of joke I am missing becuase now the pi can run more than just raspbian?
- xfer 9y agoWhat? I used to run 9front(a plan9 fork) on raspberry pi back in 2013. Their bootloader is closed source, so you have to use that to load your kernel.