Hacker GitHub

← All repos

librerpi/lk-overlay

View on GitHub ↗ ★ 107 C

7 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2022-04-08 · latest 2023-05-07

Mentions per year 7 mentions · busiest year 2022 (5)
20082026
  1. …The LibreRPi folks had to do a lot of reverse engineering to get an experimental replacement. https://github.com/librerpi/lk-overlay/
    comment by pabs3 · 2023-05-07 · in Linux Cell Phone? Build OURPhone
  2. There is FOSS boot firmware for the RPi: https://github.com/librerpi/lk-overlay/ The PinePhone modem is from Quectel, the ARM processor in the modem is by default a proprietary Linux distro, but you can replace it with an open source Linux…
  3. …project is in the lk-overlay repo, which is an overlay of the Little Kernel embedded OS project: https://github.com/librerpi/lk-overlay
  4. …stages of the boot process, including initialising the ARM core and running the Linux kernel on it. https://github.com/librerpi/lk-overlay Edit: The rpi-firmware repo has been replaced by the lk-overlay repo, which is much more flexible.
  5. Yes: https://github.com/librerpi/lk-overlay#what-features-work (Albeit, currently only on a Pi 2) EDIT: Actually, reading more carefully it looks like there might be more than one blob and it's not 100% clear to me which this replaces, so…
  6. It looks like, per https://github.com/librerpi/lk-overlay#what-features-work , yes you can boot to Linux on a Pi 2 with composite video and ... it doesn't use the word headless anywhere, but I'd be very surprised if you can't just omit…