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Re:How is the free firmware for the Raspberry progressing? by delusional on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @07:16AM (#31001038)
Could be a case that Broadcom bought the software blob (in whole or in part) and don't have the rights to release is publicly.
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Re:How is the free firmware for the Raspberry progressing? by bennyp101 on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @07:35AM (#31001199)
Yea, maybe its a way to get around their legal requirements - "here are the ingredients, but you need to figure out the recipe kinda thing"
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Re:How is the free firmware for the Raspberry progressing? by cleverca22 on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @08:44PM (#31009939)
i have seen evidence that RPF cant properly modify some of the h264 blobs so they are instead patching the blob at runtime
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