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http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221#comment-34980
so part of the boodloader is secret?If the source was open, it would mean people could unlawfully enable all of the extra silicon on the chip without paying a license pretty trivially.
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André on October 24, 2012 at 7:09 pm said:
Well, a 2-stage bootloader would be nice – 1st propriatory stage initialize videocore and codec licenses, 2nd OSS stage boots actual kernel and enables cross-hardware Linux distros. Any healthy linux distro manages kernel version upgrade itself, and OSS bootloader is a must for that.
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psergiu on October 24, 2012 at 8:45 pm said:
You can do this right now if you replace kernel.img with a suitable ARM bootloader. This sourcecode resease allows creating one that would display a graphical menu.
Not that we talk about code for Grub4dos much either
but what does this mean here? The hardware companies
wants to protect that one don't activate things one have not paid for?
Could that be code for activating VGA output instead of HDMI output?