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Re:Phone is about to stop being yours by TommyTran732 on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @11:47AM (#47950063)
The SOC still has firmware baked in as per usual.

And the firmware for Bluetooth/Wifi is loaded in by having the initramfs read it from the NOR flash, mount it in /lib/firmware, then it is business as usual like a desktop Linux distribution.

It's not something special. It's just a hackjob. They shuffle the files around and made it much harder to update.

https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/librem5-fw-jail/-/blob/pureos...

https://puri.sm/posts/shipping-new-sparklan-wifi-cards-with-...

Re:Phone is about to stop being yours by fsflover on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @03:42PM (#47953424)
You keep repeating this everywhere. Consider reading what a Librem 5 developer says instead, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47943487
Re:Phone is about to stop being yours by TommyTran732 on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @04:24PM (#47954070)
Why do you copy paste the same thing over and over a bunch of times? Linking to an irrelevant post doesn't change how it works.

Read the code posted above.