Could this laptop satisfy Stallman?

>>58759268
>exception of
not good enough for stallman
I'd buy one, though, if I weren't poor.

>>58759355
Didn't he use Yeeloong Lemote, which can't run emacs on Gnome without stuttering every three seconds, for years?

>>58759355
>with the exception of the Mali GPU driver.
So, without that, will it not be able to do 3d acceleration or no video out at all?
How bout throw on a FPGA GPU onto the board for lulz?

>>58759268
If chromebook wasn't good enough for him then why would this PoS would be?

>>58759437
>FPGA GPU

FPGAs that are fast enough to actually drive displays require non-free tools to program.

>>58759536
Chromebooks have bootloaders that are locked by default and many devices ship with closed-source drivers. Stallman doesn't want anything locked by default.

>>58759268
We should make a RISC-V based computer

>>58759394
He switched to a thinkpad

>>58759268
>Do It Yourself Open Source Haredware and Software Hacker's friendly Modular Laptop
>Haredware

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>>58759268
Freedom boner engaged

>>58759658
That's not the problem.
We can remove the closed source boot loader because it's based on Libre Software.
Hardware wise there's the arm drivers in the mainline kernels.
So it's pretty much bullshit that he doesn't support chromebooks post mod.

>>58759658
>>58760473
Source on Stallman not supporting Chromebooks running FOSS firmware? I can see him not using one personally because they are still weaker than older Thinkpad X200 and T400 series.

>>58759268
>Backdoored NSA botnet ARM chip

No thanks faggot

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>>58759268
>Could this laptop satisfy Stallman?
Nope
> > > over a considerable period of time, pine64 and the sunxi community
> > > worked to eliminate as many of those GPL violations as they could, but
> > > Allwinner insisted on keeping the early-bootloader proprietary.
> > >
> > > so at present the A64 is classified as a "non-libre" processor. that
> > > it's the basis of the olimex laptop tells you everything you need to
> > > know.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2016-09/msg00080.html

How current projects based around free firmware on non x86 based machines still seem to be focusing on the 4-5 year old Allwinner A20 and haven't moved on to something newer is rather worrying. I really hope that new SBC from Asus with the same SoC as their C201 Chromebook supports FOSS firmware like their C201 Chromebook.

>>58759268
>out of stock
Fucking phones suck all soc from useful things.

>>58759268
>Open-source laptop
Guaranteed garbage

If it ain't Intel it ain't right.

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>>58759268
>Allwinner

Is the memewinner confirmed botnet or is it just a meme?

>>58759268
>exception
In to the trashcan it goes.

>>58762074
Name one GPU from the past decade that doesn't require proprietary blobs to run. There have been GPUs with FOSS drivers available but those just load the proprietary blob firmware which does all of the actual work.