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Originally posted by pal666 View Postqualcomm trojan horse will force broadcom to stop developing open gpu drivers?
i'd expect the opposite
Remembering the utter PITA Broadcom hardware has been on PC platform and in network appliances, open-source- and open-drivers-wise, it could burn in Hell for all I care.
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Originally posted by brad0 View Post
Doesn't change what I said or the truth of the matter.
Broadcom put a lot more effort towards supporting open source than NVIDIA ever will.
I can't use bunch of broadcom chips in BSD but I can use Nvidia's GPU. Have always been able to. Nvidia at least made token effort of supporting my OS, be'em binary drivers or not. AMD, your love child and "good underdog", has not bothered even that much. Broadcom, even less.
The fact that Broadcom made exception for a Raspberry, does not make it "good" in my eyes. It's a world of gray shades, where Broadcom is darker than most.Last edited by aht0; 08 November 2017, 12:51 PM.
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Originally posted by pal666 View Postwhat amount of Tegras will count as many?
Originally posted by pal666 View PostQualcomm trojan horse will force Broadcom to stop developing open gpu drivers?
i'd expect the oppositeOriginally posted by pal666 View PostI don't see a singe OpenGL driver with open source(which is order of magnitude more important that firmware) from Qualcomm. unlike Broadcom
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because it seems like while the driver is being worked on, there is no official involvement in open source VideoCore firmware/bootloader efforts, unless I'm missing something:
Open source VPU side bootloader for Raspberry Pi. Contribute to christinaa/rpi-open-firmware development by creating an account on GitHub.
Sure, if Qualcomm makes no open source drivers at all that's worse, but with two separate companies you can buy the most open source supported product from each and with enough combined purchasing power both companies might notice that there open source products are selling better.
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Broadcom and Qualcomm are very similar. Both are inclined on NDAs, both are proprietary-minded, both make ICs which are nearly impossible to buy on open markets, and overall both companies are quite hostile to opensource, tinkering, experiments and somesuch. Both are quite good at backdoors and all kinds of shady closed-source firmwares together with lack of documentation and all kinds of digital lockdowns, restrictions and patent trolling. So I do not think merger of two hostile entities would result in any improvement for Linux or opensource. "Two turkeys do not make an eagle". These two are real turkeys when it comes to Linux and opensource.Last edited by SystemCrasher; 11 November 2017, 09:11 AM.
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Originally posted by SystemCrasher View PostBroadcom and Qualcomm are very similar. Both are inclined on NDAs, both are proprietary-minded, both make ICs which are nearly impossible to buy on open markets, and overall both companies are quite hostile to opensource, tinkering, experiments and somesuch. Both are quite good at backdoors and all kinds of shady closed-source firmwares together with lack of documentation and all kinds of digital lockdowns, restrictions and patent trolling. So I do not think merger of two hostile entities would result in any improvement for Linux or opensource. "Two turkeys do not make an eagle". These two are real turkeys when it comes to Linux and opensource.
Any examples on backdoors?
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Originally posted by aht0 View Post
Not picking on you this time. Agree with you 100%.
Any examples on backdoors?Last edited by SystemCrasher; 19 November 2017, 02:54 AM.
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Originally posted by aht0 View PostNot picking on you this time. Agree with you 100%.
Any examples on backdoors?
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostIf you don't want to read his less-coherent ramblings with no proof whatsoever, here is an article on Replicant wiki describing an actual backdoor in Samsung smartphones where the modem can read/write stuff where it wants in the smartphone's filesystem. https://redmine.replicant.us/project...GalaxyBackdoor
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