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Open source VPU side bootloader for Raspberry Pi.

17 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 4 stories, 13 comments · first 2020-06-21 · latest 2024-09-05

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  1. …you are. Not wrong, are you, but not strictly correct, depending on "...to run properly" definition https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware has updates 3-months ago
    comment by worik · 2023-11-03 · in Raspberry Pi receives strategic investment from Arm
  2. https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware The paragraph 'Does it boot Linux' should answer your questions
    comment by mburee · 2022-09-15 · in LibreRPi – open source replacements for RPi firmware
  3. …broken due to arm side problems, which could be fixed by just using a different bootloader and the https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware codebase can already boot linux headlessly on both pi2 and pi3, it uses a different arm…
    comment by cleverca22 · 2022-04-12 · in How is the free firmware for the Raspberry progressing?
  4. Yes, and some folks are reverse engineering their stuff: https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware/
    comment by pabs3 · 2021-07-08 · in Arduino Pro hardware is not open-source hardware
  5. …have RSA signing support, so the proprietary firmware might become mandatory at some point. https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware/blob/master/do...
    comment by pabs3 · 2021-02-25 · in rpi-open-firmware: open-source VPU side bootloader for Raspberry Pi
  6. …to create an open source version of the proprietary GPU firmware that boots into the ARM processor: https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware
    comment by pabs3 · 2021-02-25 · in AArch64 Boards and Perception
  7. …firmware and I hear more recent hardware editions have RSA signing support in the bootrom code. https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware/blob/master/do...
    comment by pabs3 · 2021-02-24 · in Taking a Stand in the War on General-Purpose Computing
  8. There is an open bootloader, sadly it needs a non-upstream toolchain: https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware https://github.com/itszor/vc4-toolchain/issues/7
    comment by pabs3 · 2020-09-19 · in Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB
  9. …is libre RPi boot firmware, unfortunately it relies on toolchain support that isn't upstream yet: https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware https://github.com/itszor/vc4-toolchain/issues/7
    comment by pabs3 · 2020-09-19 · in Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB
  10. Some links for folks who want to work on fixing the blob situation: https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware https://github.com/itszor/vc4-toolchain/issues/7
    comment by pabs3 · 2020-09-08 · in Raspberry Pi 3B+ Hackable Linux Handheld
  11. https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware is a pretty serious attempt at the bootloader (incl. VC4 side). As in they can boot an OS, with some limitations but still.
    comment by floatboth · 2020-09-05 · in PicoRio Linux RISC-V SBC is an open-source alternative to Raspberry Pi board
  12. …don't intend to mainline. So probably RPi will need blobs to boot for the foreseeable future. https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware https://github.com/itszor/vc4-toolchain/issues/7
    comment by pabs3 · 2020-09-05 · in PicoRio Linux RISC-V SBC is an open-source alternative to Raspberry Pi board
  13. There is open RPi boot firmware here: https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware/
    comment by pabs3 · 2020-06-21 · in A Nvidia Engineer Wrote a Vulkan Driver That Works on Older Raspberry Pi