Phoneblok project

[Dmitriy Nikandrov]

RPi isn't FPGA, it is SoC with ARM1176 core.


2013/10/26 Peter (peabo) Olson <peabo at peabo.com>

> On October 26, 2013 at 4:02 AM Richard Quirk <richard.quirk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On 10/26/13, Bradley D. Thornton <Bradley at northtech.us> wrote:
> > >
> > > We can keep hoping though, can't we? Think Raspberry Pi, right? :)
> > >
> >
> > You might not have read this, it seems the Raspberry Pi has some big
> > freedom problems too.
> >
> > https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers
> >
> > """
> > The Raspberry Pi requires nonfree software to start up. It can't reach
> > the point of executing free software unless this nonfree program is
> > part of the installed system software.
>
> I was imagining that the freedom problem was further back.  The RPi is an
> FPGA,
> isn't it?  Most development systems for FPGA are highly proprietary.  How
> does
> the RPi get its initial program load?  (Or, perhaps, it is in fixed ROM.)
>
> peabo
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