Rob Morley wrote on 7/19/2017 12:02 PM:
> 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.

I believe that is what Dave said.

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Rick C

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