nieebel

Not only #gnu #linux has landed on #mars but also #fairphone 2' CPU Snapdragon 801 did its job: dwaves.de/2021/02/24/mars-heli

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@aligyie I guess they can get away with a Qualcomm chip because they don't need hardware graphics.
I've been so turned off to that company by how abusive they are with their IP and drivers I don't think I'll ever buy anything with any of their SoCs in it again.

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nieebel

@swiley fully agree! Couple of years ago I read an interesting article:
fsf.org/resources/hw/single-bo
Based on this I bought an UDOO DUAL (#NXP imx6). Now, I'm thinking of something new, which runs #Kodi at 4k. Do you think #imx8 is a good choice? It's used in #purism #librem5 and in an @olimex board.
Or in the meanwhile, are there some new players, which respect freedom?
Is Broadcom ( #RaspberryPi 4) a better alternative to Qualcomm?

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@aligyie @olimex I've always liked the imx chips but I've never read the datasheet so I'm not sure if there's something bad I don't know about.

From what I understand the Broadcom chips still need blobs.

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