On 2023-08-31, Christopher Obbard wrote: > Package name : rkbin > Version : 0.0.0~git20230726.b4558da > Upstream Contact: Kever Yang <kever.y...@rock-chips.com> > URL : https://github.com/rockchip-linux/rkbin > License : Copyright © 2017-2023，Rockchip Electronics Co., > Ltd. All rights reserved. > Programming Lang: n/a; prebuilt firmware binaries > Description : Pre-built Rockchip bootloader firmware binaries (for > embedded targets) > > This package contains the Rockchip bootloader firmware binaries, primarily > used for targets where no open-source versions is yet released. > The pre-built firmware consists of builds of Arm Trusted Firmware, OP-TEE > and U-Boot. There are also some closed-source tools in this repo, build for > amd64. These will be stripped from the upstream source package as I do > not (yet) see a need for these.
> This package is required to build U-Boot for some embedded targets such as > rk3588, rk3566, rk3568. All of these will eventually have open-source > firmware, but it is still useful for new processors in the future where > U-Boot support will be merged long before the initial DRAM bringup and > trusted firmware. Arm Trusted Firmware for some of these rk35xx variants is now supported in the Debian packaging and upstream. I think the only thing left for rk3588 is the DDR training binaries from rkbin: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2024/02/21/almost-a-fully-open-source-boot-chain-for-rockchips-rk3588/ Not sure about the other rk35xx variants. > I expect this package will go into non-free-firmware. I *think* this license looks plausible for non-free-firmware: https://github.com/rockchip-linux/rkbin/blob/master/LICENSE Rockchip hereby grants to you a non-exclusive license (a) to use, copy, distribute the Software; (b) to modify any source code as part of Software(if any) and sublicense, distribute such modifications. Except as expressively authorized by Rockchip in writing, you may NOT: (a) decompile, reverse-engineer, dissemble, or attempt to derive any source code from the Software; (b) remove or obscure any copyright, patent, or trademark statement or notices contained in the Software. Those exclusions might make it hard for folks to come up with free implementations, though. :( live well, vagrant
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