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Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME
From: |
Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli |
Subject: |
Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME |
Date: |
Sat, 2 Apr 2016 22:40:35 +0200 |
On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 18:47:04 -0300
Felipe Sanches <address@hidden> wrote:
> This sounds pretty much non-sense to me. Maybe we have incompatible
> definitions of what "firmware" means. So, to make my point clear, by
> "firmware" I mean bare-metal software. That is... very low level
> software that runs on the CPUs or microcontrollers of an electronics
> board. And yes firmware can be free software. Libreboot is one famous
> example of free firmware (in particular, bootcode).
That is a good definition indeed that fits the most common kind of
firmwares I can think of.
With regard to firmwares types and software freedom we have:
- 100% free software boot fimrwares like libreboot.
It initialize enough hardware, to be able to load GNU/Linux. It does
some very complicated stuff like initializing the RAM that Linux
doesn't do.
- Peripherals fimrwares. We have several free software fimrwares that
respectively targets a particular chip. A very famous one is the
ath9k_htc one which was liberated by the chip vendor thanks to
people and companie(s) that worked to make it happen.
Denis.
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- Re: [GNU-linux-libre] MAME, (continued)
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