07-24-2021, 10:19 AM
Howdy Piners:
My pinebook pro didn't have bluetooth, wifi, audio, or display functioning properly, until I installed the blobs. I'm running slarm64, so it was natural to download the blobs from the sndwvs repository: https://gitlab.com/sndwvs/images_build_k...s/firmware.
However, what if something happened to this repository and it went down? I would feel safer having an additional source.
What other repositories contain pinebook pro blobs, and which repository is "most upstream" and likely to have the most up-to-date firmware?
Since source code is not shared with blobs, then these are certainly something we can't compile ourselves. Does pine64 have an "official" repository from which it releases these nuisances (sorry I don't like blobs, and would prefer a totally open device with poor non-proprietary resolution on its display and camera). Nevertheless, since forced to use the blobs if I want full functionality in my pinebook, it would be nice to know from where they can be retrieved?
Also, will the pbp blobs eventually find themselves in linux kernel's mainline firmware: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git?
My pinebook pro didn't have bluetooth, wifi, audio, or display functioning properly, until I installed the blobs. I'm running slarm64, so it was natural to download the blobs from the sndwvs repository: https://gitlab.com/sndwvs/images_build_k...s/firmware.
However, what if something happened to this repository and it went down? I would feel safer having an additional source.
What other repositories contain pinebook pro blobs, and which repository is "most upstream" and likely to have the most up-to-date firmware?
Since source code is not shared with blobs, then these are certainly something we can't compile ourselves. Does pine64 have an "official" repository from which it releases these nuisances (sorry I don't like blobs, and would prefer a totally open device with poor non-proprietary resolution on its display and camera). Nevertheless, since forced to use the blobs if I want full functionality in my pinebook, it would be nice to know from where they can be retrieved?
Also, will the pbp blobs eventually find themselves in linux kernel's mainline firmware: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git?