Which phone should I buy for running Replicant?

[Paul Kocialkowski]

Le jeudi 26 septembre 2013 à 09:48 +0100, Nick a écrit :
> There is the OpenFWWF project, though that doesn't seem to be 
> focussed on supporting many models, it looks like it can effectively 
> drive the older BCM4xxx chips well enough. Updating the code to work 
> on newer chips like the BCM4329 might be a (relatively) easy way to 
> sort the firmware problem out for many newish phones, but it 
> certainly isn't an area I have enough knowledge or skill to do more 
> than talk about.

I seriously doubt it is that easy or even doable and my expectations of
ever seeing a free firmware for these chips are close to zero.

On the other hand, ath9k_htc has a fully free firmware, released by
Qualcomm, so it's the only WiFi chip that could permit having a free
wifi firmware on an embedded device (read: phone, tablet, SBC).

-- 
Paul Kocialkowski, Replicant developer

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