Fedora Freedom and linux-libre

Anders Karlsson anders at trudheim.co.uk
Wed Jun 18 20:17:40 UTC 2008


* Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat.com> [20080618 21:50]:
> On Jun 16, 2008, Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl> wrote:
[snip]
> > Not being able to ever change the firmware is good,
> 
> It's not.  Being Free to change it would undoubtedly be better.

So what's stopping you? Go buy the programming manual for the chip, or
discuss with the chip manufacturer to get the specs as there may not
be a programming manual along the line what you find with say an Intel
CPU.

As the firmware may be written from scratch in hex, that may be your
*only* option.

/Anders




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