Re: Official support Odroid hardware and other ARM development boards.
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Tobias Frost <tobi@coldtobi.de> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 26.02.2014, 18:26 -0700 schrieb Eric Nelson:
>> There are also some open-source bits with licenses other than
>> GPL/LGPL provided by Freescale (notably, some of the VPU code),
>> but the restrictions are pretty reasonable: Don't use on non-Freescale
>> processors...
>
> If you need that code to run the board, well, than also your boards are
> non-free, if you refer to the DFSG.
ah that's a good point. tobias: the VPU code is basically for
accelerated video and audio encode and decode. unlike the AM338x
DaVinci HD Media focussed SoCs from TI that firmware is *not* required
for general day-to-day usage of the chip. you can simply ignore that
firmware, and the only "Bad Thing (tm)" that will happen is that
you'll need to use NEON instructions for watching videos and you'd
only get what... 720p20 or something like that. big deal.
so, the firmware could go into the nonfree debian repositories, just
like Flash plugin does at the moment.
would something like that qualify as acceptable under the DFSG?
l.
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