/prog/ - Paranoid hardware [PART XVII]

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 8:36

Any desktops/laptops/motherboards/SoCs that do not require closed-source firmware blobs out there?

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 8:59

>>1
the leemote yeeelong (STALLMAN APPROVED)

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 9:05

>>2
Good answer, any other? Do {beagle,panda}boards qualify here? I know the Raspberry π has this humongous blob that needs to run before everything else.

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 11:06

>>3
{beagle,panda}board
Don't those require blobs to run the GPU? I don't know whether you can get any graphics output without that.

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 11:15

There's this wonderful thing called an abacus which can help you compute tasks without any need for interactions with non-free software.

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 11:45

>>5
That does not qualify as a desktop, a laptop, a motherboard, or an SoC.

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 12:52

>>6
You can put it on your desk. You can put it on your lap.
Ergo, it is both a laptop and a desktop. Fucking cretin.

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 13:30

>>7
Duck typing is for faggots. Fuck off you FIOC kike.

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 13:43

>>5,7-8
Please leave or I'll call security.

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 14:12

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 15:35

>>9
Fuck off Shlomo, you can't tell me what to do.

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 15:44

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 16:10

>>11
Yes I can, you're fascist, you're supposed to obey to authority.

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 17:17

Anything that supports coreboot.

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 18:56

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Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 22:08

>>14
{T,X}60{s,} ?

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 22:45

>>14
there's not that many...

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 23:17

FUCK OFF JEW

Name: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 2012-11-21 2:23

>>18
Who are you talking to?

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-21 14:57

>>1
You could make your own out of Microchip PICs, downside being that it will be about as fast as a 286. I'm not sure they have the required clock rate to drive a modern RAM stick, though. I'm not sure what it would take to get video output out of them, though.

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-21 17:49

>>20
I'm not sure they have the required clock rate to drive a modern RAM stick, though.
Seriously? Do you know how many pins a DDR3 stick has?

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-21 17:52

>>20
I'm not sure what it would take to get video output out of them, though.
Buy a Raspberry Pi and use it for graphics output for your ``secure system''.

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-21 17:54

>>20
http://adafruit.com/products/358
5 seconds on google.

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-21 22:32

>>23
I'm pretty sure there are small RAM chips.

>>24
Not a bad idea.

>>25
1.8 inch screen, does it come with a fresnel magnifier?

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-21 23:22

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone/posts/336213

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-21 23:50

>>27
Initial Parallella computers will be offered for $99.
More like ``a supercomputer for the 1%'', amirite?

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-21 23:55

>>28
Back to ~~wall street protest~~ ~~Apple Store~~ alternative café.

>>27
Where does it say closed-source software isn't required to drive it?

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-22 0:04

>>29
Nowhere, I think they want to curtail your essential rights, show them the nasty end of your shotgun!

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-22 0:26

>>30
I'll show them the nasty end of my gastrointestinal tract!

This seems interesting, though: http://cubieboard.org/
The Mali-400 GPU obviously requires binary blobs, but I read somewhere that you can still get an unaccelerated framebuffer and an otherwise perfectly functional board without them. I don't know if there are any issues regarding firmware or bootloaders, though.

Name: Cudder !MhMRSATORI!fR8duoqGZdD/iE5 2012-11-22 0:49

>>25
That's overpriced. You can get a 1024x768 15" for that much, new.

...Or go dumpster diving and find LCDs that are perfectly good apart from a few dollar's worth of bad caps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytw57212X2o

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-22 2:59

>>29
All of the software and the SDK are open source, or will be in February. The hardware itself is also open source, the schematics and architecture design will be available.

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-22 10:13

>>33
The hardware itself is also open source
Technically that's not true (since they don't plan on releasing the HDL sources), but all I care about is open firmware anyway.

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-22 11:44

>>31
I don't know if there are any issues regarding firmware or bootloaders, though.
Why don't you ask them you autistic homolord?

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-22 14:54

JEWS like rms are the only ones who care about ``muh propootoory boot''.

Fuck off and buy a normal computer.

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-22 18:37

>>36
That's not true, I also care.

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-22 18:38

>>37
That means you're a JEW.

Shalom!

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-22 18:40

>>38
I'm new here and don't get all that jew thing, but fuck, why not? Shalom!

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-22 19:19

>>39
Fuck off back to /g/.

Paranoid hardware [PART XVII]

1 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 8:36

2 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 8:59

3 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 9:05

4 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 11:06

5 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 11:15

6 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 11:45

7 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 12:52

8 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 13:30

9 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 13:43

10 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 14:12

11 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 15:35

12 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 15:44

13 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 16:10

14 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 17:17

15 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 18:56

16 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 22:08

17 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 22:45

18 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-20 23:17

19 Name: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 2012-11-21 2:23

20 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-21 14:57

23 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-21 17:49

24 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-21 17:52

25 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-21 17:54

26 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-21 22:32

27 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-21 23:22

28 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-21 23:50

29 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-21 23:55

30 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-22 0:04

31 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-22 0:26

32 Name: Cudder !MhMRSATORI!fR8duoqGZdD/iE5 2012-11-22 0:49

33 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-22 2:59

34 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-22 10:13

35 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-22 11:44

36 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-22 14:54

37 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-22 18:37

38 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-22 18:38

39 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-22 18:40

40 Name: Anonymous 2012-11-22 19:19