Which phone should I buy for running Replicant?

Dmitriy Nikandrov dmitriy.nikandrov at gmail.com
Wed Sep 25 21:39:08 UTC 2013


Don't get you.

I was speaking about proprietary firmware, which is still needed to
use different hardware. Even if you find totally open driver & maybe
integrated in Linux kernel.
Good example is b43 driver
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 - it doesn't work
without proprietary firmware.


2013/9/25, SheemOn Shapiro <first.sheemon at gmail.com>:
> You are grossly inaccurate and historically a defeatist.  When we started
> developing bad Unix and later Linux, everything was closed.  Google was a
> search engine and no more.  Look at the current Linux source tree and then
> repeat your statement...
>  On Sep 25, 2013 9:30 AM, "Dmitriy Nikandrov" <dmitriy.nikandrov at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Not only phones,
>> but also laptops, desktops, routers, etc... Even Raspberry Pi in it's
>> heart is closed source.
>>
>> The problem is that there is no OPEN HARDWARE chips (with open firmware):
>> for Wi-Fi
>> for GSM (even can't be because of patents on core specifications)
>> for LTE
>> for GPS
>>
>>
>> 2013/9/25, Nick <replicant at njw.me.uk>:
>> > Quoth Brian Kemp:
>> >> To be clear - the driver is free. The firmware is not.
>> >
>> > Gosh, looking at the table on the status page [0] I see that there
>> > are no devices which have wifi without non-free firmware. So there
>> > are no phones which have either free wifi or free gsm parts? The
>> > situation sucks even more than I realised as a casual observer.
>> > "Sure, you can use your phone freely, so long as you don't want any
>> > connectivity."
>> >
>> > /me sighs.
>> >
>> > 0.  http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/ReplicantStatus
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