On 28 August 2014 21:34, Drew Fustini pdp7pdp7@gmail.com wrote:

I couldn't tell from story, but do you know if the board is Open Source Hardware?

BTW, it would be awesome if Imagination upstreamed drivers for the PowerVR SGX. I could see the pro-open-source arguement bearing more weight internally when it is their own board. My understanding of the PowerVR SGX GPU in TI Sitara (BeagleBone Black) is that it is Imagination's choice whether or not to provide open source drivers. I'm not aware of any Open Source Hardware single board computer that has Open Source mainline Linux graphics drivers other than the new MinnowBoard MAX.

thanks, drew

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Andrew Back arback@computer.org wrote:

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Free Pi-esque MIPS-based boards available to those with $IDEAS:

http://blog.imgtec.com/powervr-developers/new-mips-creator-ci20-development-...

Cheers,

Andrew

(late reply - been away)

Hi! Hey, that'll be me then ... me and my group have been somewhat instrumental in getting that board together and out. I'm now looking through the *huge* volume of requests we got for boards to pick out the best (fun!) projects... and start shipping them. I actually had a CI20 with me at WutheringBytes on the Saturday, but was not really in a position to show it and it had not quite made the streets at that point.

An aside - wasn't one of the most open machines the Lemote mips based 2e or 2f netbook - afaik RichardStallman used one as it was at the time the only fully open machine I think - not sure if he is still using it ;-)

The board is open hardware as far as you get the schematic (they are linked off the elinux.org pages already) - but not presently open as far as gerbers etc. Yes, there are binary blobs for the wifi and GPU, similar to, as you say, almost all other embedded SoC/boards.

Graham (Imagination/MIPS).

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