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bradyd on Dec 12, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: You can take down Pirate Bay, but you can’t kill t...

> You can't even boot the raspberry pi without running closed software.

I thought that this was no longer necessary[1], but after searching around I'm not sure if this means it is possible to boot without the blob. Does anyone know if this is the case?

[1] http://www.raspberrypi.org/a-birthday-present-from-broadcom/

GauntletWizard on Dec 12, 2014 [–]

The blob has been open sourced, their followup post describes the steps to build it from scratch:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/quake-iii-bounty-we-have-a-winner...

rasz_pl on Dec 13, 2014 | [–]

no, 3d driver part of the blob is semi open blob is still closed source black box of secret sauce (video encoders/decoders, IO ports, bootstrapping)

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