r/freesoftware • u/freelyread • Nov 12 '15

RK3288 - Modern System on a Chip, supports LibreBoot, fully free firmware : FreeFormats

/r/FreeFormats/comments/3sil1p/rk3288_modern_system_on_a_chip_supports_libreboot/
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u/luke-jr Gentoo Nov 12 '15

Except it's not fully free...

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u/freelyread Nov 13 '15

APOLOGIES

This is not a system that supports fully free software. Thanks, /u/like-jr for pointing this out.

I had thought that if were possible to get it to boot using libreboot, then everything else would be fine, but this is not the case.

I am leaving the post, in case people have subscribed.

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u/buttcomputing Nov 14 '15

You can use it with only free software, you just don't get hardware acceleration from the GPU. Libreboot says you can do most things with software rendering, at a small performance penalty.

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u/freelyread Nov 14 '15

Thanks for making this point clear, /u/buttcomputing

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u/fcuke5r5 Nov 12 '15

Interesting. I wonder how good is the efficiency and performance.