Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Fuloong liberated

[Karl Goetz]

On Mon, 16 May 2011 21:45:56 +0200
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 16.05.2011 11:12, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> > Hello all. As you all probably know the Floong as shipped by lemote
> > uses a 64K binary blob to initialize the video which makes it
> > non-free. Fortunately now there is an alternative: GRUB2. To

Congrats on reaching the point of booting :)

> > The resulting grub.img can be flashed using flashrom
> > http://flashrom.org/Flashrom. Be sure to have backup chip before
> > flashing. Fortunately the chip is socketed so you can easily
> > replace it. Although the image such created worked fine for me, it
> > wasn't tested enough yet so have a backup chip and please, report
> > if you encounter any problems.

Does this mean its now eaiser to free the fuloong then yeeloong? (as
iirc yeeloongs boot rom is soldered on?)
thanks,
kk

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