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Is anyone else here really excited about SBCs and how they will advance in the near future? It seems the main way to get a new computer that can run entirely free firmware over the past several years has been to go with an SBC (yes, I know the Raspberry Pi series can't, at least not if you want full functionality currently). They have also been significantly easier and less expensive for smaller groups to fund than current higher end attempts such as those Talos motherboards people were going on about last year and failed to get enough funding due to how much they would cost. Furthermore, with the newest 7nm process node that will likely allow AMD to produce the Threadripper 1950X with the same performance at <100 watt TDP and the ability to overclock to 5 GHz while costing $500-$600 if everything GlobalFoundries claimed about 7nm comes to pass, imagine what that could mean for newer SBCs. I fully expect SBCs more powerful than Libreboot capable machines to start being manufactured in the near future.
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>>61926510
Well, you made me expect for the best OP, lets hope things are going to the right direction and we soon have at least an open platform.
In the meantime we need developers to replace the last remnants of binary blobs in the SBCs, like in Odroid, the only binary blob is some video driver and then is all free, that's it.
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>>61927304
The higher end ODROIDs need signed bootload blobs to boot last I checked. I've heard the Asus Tinker Board can use a FOSS boatloader though, and the specs seem comparable to the higher end ODROIDs such as the XU4 with the main difference being a 200 MHz lower clock speed (though it's designed to be clocked 800 MHz faster with an actual heatsink) and not having the 4 weaker cores that the ODROID has.
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