How is the free firmware for the Raspberry progressing?

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  • It looks like, per https://github.com/librerpi/lk-overlay#what-features-work , yes you can boot to Linux on a Pi 2 with composite video and ... it doesn't use the word headless anywhere, but I'd be very surprised if you can't just omit video outputs completely.

  • rpi-open-firmware

    Open source VPU side bootloader for Raspberry Pi. (by librerpi)

  • many of those demos work on the the entire pi model range

    pi3 support is only broken due to arm side problems, which could be fixed by just using a different bootloader

    and the https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware codebase can already boot linux headlessly on both pi2 and pi3, it uses a different arm bootloader

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    Libre Mainline Kernel and Debian for arm laptops

  • > I'd hardly argue that the RK3399 SoC is more "open" than any of the broadcom SoCs.

    What? The gru-kevin chromebook (RK3399) can be booted without using a single binary blob, absolutely everything (even the arm trusted firmware) built from source. I use mine that way.

    I've never seen a laptop with a "broadcom SoC" that could make that claim.

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