Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 03:30:16PM +0100, bnewb...@robocracy.org wrote: >> >> Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes: >> >> >Bunnie Huang and others are working on a ARM-based laptop 'Novena' with >> >open hardware and mostly open firmware: >> ><http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2686>, >> ><http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page>. >> >> I'm very interested in this chipset and may have access to a >> prototype of the Novena in late January for a couple days. I'd like >> to do what I can to help get Debian running on it in a headless >> no-blob configuration, or at least document any problems (assuming >> the hardware team hasn't already finished the work at that point). > > Is the GPU blob needed even for setting up a dumb framebuffer and > display generators, or is it only needed for accelerated rendering > by the GPU?
I don't have a imx6 but my imx51/53 can run framebuffer (but no acceleration) without any blob and imx6 should work in a same way afaik. That's handled by the imx-drm IPUv3 driver in staging. Arnaud -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87hankbqvm....@lebrac.rtp-net.org
