Re: Novena open laptop
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 03:30:16PM +0100, bnewbold@robocracy.org wrote:
>
> Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes:
>
> >Bunnie Huang and others are working on a ARM-based laptop 'Novena' with
> >open hardware and mostly open firmware:
> ><http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2686>,
> ><http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page>.
>
> I'm very interested in this chipset and may have access to a
> prototype of the Novena in late January for a couple days. I'd like
> to do what I can to help get Debian running on it in a headless
> no-blob configuration, or at least document any problems (assuming
> the hardware team hasn't already finished the work at that point).
Is the GPU blob needed even for setting up a dumb framebuffer and
display generators, or is it only needed for accelerated rendering
by the GPU?
Ben.
> I'm not subscribed to debian-kernel@, but will post what I learn here.
--
Ben Hutchings
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- Albert Camus
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