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Re:PineNote Developer Edition – E-Paper Tablet by rbanffy on Thursday December 23, 2021 @02:05PM (#29665237)
Maybe asking politely and offering help would work better. It’s entirely possible the blob was never cleared for release as source.

In the distant past I was hired to provide programs in binary form and many clients refused to pay more for source.

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Re:PineNote Developer Edition – E-Paper Tablet by CameronNemo on Thursday December 23, 2021 @02:31PM (#29665543)
Or, you can just avoid vendors who make you beg for open source drivers.
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Re:PineNote Developer Edition – E-Paper Tablet by rbanffy on Thursday December 23, 2021 @03:14PM (#29665969)
How many competitive ARM SoC vendors that have good software higiene out there?
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Re:PineNote Developer Edition – E-Paper Tablet by CameronNemo on Thursday December 23, 2021 @04:01PM (#29666425)
Who says I have to buy an ARM SoC. I can always just check out and keep using second hand devices. Or something from Intel, if I need more power.

And to answer your question, two come to mind, NXP and Amlogic.

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Re:PineNote Developer Edition – E-Paper Tablet by rbanffy on Friday December 24, 2021 @03:26AM (#29671559)
Are we still talking about Pine64?

As for blobs without source, the same happens with x86 all the time. If you really want a fully deblobbed computer, you can try one of the POWER boxes from Raptor.

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