On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 14:50:30 +0100
Another Dave  wrote:

> Yes. I understand the Linux boot process. I'm simply quoting Andrew
> Tanenbaum, the author and still developer of Minix, who said that he
> chose the beaglebone for ARM development because it was more open
> source than the Pi. I therefore expressed a wish, and I'm not the
> first, that more of the Pi's drivers were open in the spirit of the
> subject of this thread.

RPi is based on proprietary chips, there are legitimate commercial
reasons why the full implementation details are not available without
an NDA.  If total openness is important to you (for political/
ideological/practical reasons) then choose a product with that
designed into it instead.

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