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Re:Librem 5 Phone Funded by jononor on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @05:44PM (#15445570)
None of the RPi boards have been released as open source hardware, neither schematics nor layouts. One cannot even buy the chips from Broadcom. This is a practical problem if trying to base a phone of it.

EDIT, example of boards that have do sources available: https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/open-source-ha...

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Re:Librem 5 Phone Funded by ZenoArrow on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @07:34PM (#15446151)
> "EDIT, example of boards that have do sources available: https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/open-source-ha... "

There's no usable open source driver for Mali GPUs (the Lima project got the closest, but it's stalled: https://limadriver.org/ ), so the A20 does not have "sources available".

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