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Re:Broadcom Explores Deal to Acquire Chipmaker Qualcomm by metilda on Friday November 03, 2017 @07:45PM (#15623014)
The Raspberry Pi having a non-closed bootchain, let alone a free driver is a feat of tens of thousands of people pressuring Broadcom, and a few people doing the hard work to free as much of the RPI as they could.

Having to run Raspbian just to boot the board was a dark time!

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Re:Broadcom Explores Deal to Acquire Chipmaker Qualcomm by bob_theslob646 on Friday November 03, 2017 @09:14PM (#15623311)
>Having to run Raspbian just to boot the board was a dark time!

Is this some sort of joke I am missing becuase now the pi can run more than just raspbian?

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Re:Broadcom Explores Deal to Acquire Chipmaker Qualcomm by xfer on Saturday November 04, 2017 @12:01AM (#15623705)
What? I used to run 9front(a plan9 fork) on raspberry pi back in 2013. Their bootloader is closed source, so you have to use that to load your kernel.
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