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A step in the wrong direction is "locking firmware", where a loadable firmware is made read-only by storing it to a ROM. (…) This is madness that needs to stop.
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

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I'm not sure I understand what is going on - did Raspberry Pi try to lock the firmware of the GPU to a ROM and FSF supported that in 2012? What is the situation now?
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla''

Elena ``of Valhalla''
Elena ``of Valhalla''
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Back in 2012 Raspberry Pi announced that they were the first arm board with FLOSS GPU drivers, when they in fact only had a shim that called the real drivers from the proprietary GPU firmware. Since then their situation has afaik improved a lot.

I don't know if the FSF ever dealt with Raspberry Pi, but they have suggested multiple times that putting a proprietary firmware on a ROM would make it part of the hardware and thus not a/their problem; I know it has happened with the GTA04 and with wifi card.

IMHO this policy is horribly misguided, does not improve the practical freedom of the user and reduces their potential freedom.

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