Re:Librem 5 Phone Dogwood Thermals and Battery Life
by akiselev on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @04:40PM
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Back when it was Freescale, I don't remember their documentation being that much better than Qualcomm's. The software support sure was better at first but given the RaspberryPi community size, I think it'd be a wash - although I don't know when LibRem started development. The biggest difference I experienced was that you could download iMX documentation along with all the reference designs without breaking into a Freescale employee's house or proving to one of their account managers that you could sell millions of units.
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Re:Librem 5 Phone Dogwood Thermals and Battery Life
by tonyarkles on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @10:06PM
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That is, by far, the thing I loved the most about the i.MX6 design I worked on: it was a high cost low volume board, but we could still get parts from Digikey and just download the reference material off the website. A company like Qualcomm wouldn’t have given us the time of day.
Re:Librem 5 Phone Dogwood Thermals and Battery Life
by imtringued on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @02:55AM
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The raspberry pi is based around a graphics chip with a proprietary threadx based operating system. Librem's "software support" standards are high enough (no proprietary software) that this qualifies as worse support than a random Allwinner SoC.