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Originally posted by LoveRPi
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problem here is lightly functional mali is not 2 years away. 2 years way todo everything mali 400 can yes. Enough to run a 2d phone interface and do basic development work is here now.
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Sometimes you need to know the approval process.
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So this is a case that something does not exist because it does not need to legally exist. Of course for those wishing to reuse the parts being made by pine if their wifi module had a stand alone fcc id it would be nice but its not a legal requirement to ship devices.
Please note there are laptops sold in the USA where the m.2 wifi card does not have a FCC ID but the laptop itself has a FCC ID and it legal because that card TCB has been linked to the laptops FCC ID. So a laptop vendor might have like 8 supplies of wifi cards and gets TCBs on all of them and linked that to 1 FCC ID on the device. Yes this can work out cheaper than getting all the cards unique FCC ID. So what pine has done is not unique to pine.
Please note there is a second horrible to the USA FCC ID regulation you see a removable m.2 wifi module in laptop with a FCC ID number on it you look up the number and you find its the laptop number FCC ID not a module unique number as well so not legal to use with any other device. Lot of ways pine was at least well enough behaved not to just print the complete device FCC ID on the wifi module.
FCC ID is a bureaucracy nightmare with what is legal to be done with it and how what looks legal for what you can use because it has a FCC ID printed on it is not.
This is something people using librem 5 could basically legally hang draw and quarter themselves attempt to use random m.2 wifi cards source random-ally inside the USA. This is why pine was recommended against having removable modules in final pinephone as well as using random m.2 wifi/cellular modules in the USA FCC system is a good way to land yourself in breach of FCC rules .
Lot of ways we can learn a lot from what Pine has legally done and those planning on using librem 5 really do need to be aware that the usable m.2 modules will be kind of restricted due to the fact you are not required to individually FCC ID wifi and cellular modules. Modules that have been bundle FCC ID will not be usable with the librem 5.
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