Comment by fsflover
6 months ago
You're right about the drivers, but you don't need to reverse engineer them for Librem 5: They are already free. You only need to do it for the firmware, which AFAIK doesn't depend on the OS.
6 months ago
You're right about the drivers, but you don't need to reverse engineer them for Librem 5: They are already free. You only need to do it for the firmware, which AFAIK doesn't depend on the OS.
"Non-free driver blobs" in the librephone context means anything needed to drive the hardware. i.e. kernel drivers, HAL modules, firmware images, user-space vendor libs, etc.
But sure, librem5 probably has most of that already.
> But sure, librem5 probably has most of that already.
So it would be less work and would benefit more operating systems to work on it. Yet the FSF chose another hardware - I don't understand why.
Because they aren’t focusing on a specific piece of hardware… I’m really not sure what you are expecting? The librephone project to be focused on librem5 instead of the hardware used in thousands of other devices?
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