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Libre firmware?

Libre firmware?

Posted Feb 4, 2026 18:52 UTC (Wed) by Conan_Kudo (subscriber, #103240)
In reply to: Libre firmware? by Cyberax
Parent article: The future for Tyr

They are rumored to be full computer systems in their own right, though probably not Linux systems. Heck, the NVIDIA GSP is a full RISC-V computer. So the firmware is an operating system payload for that computer.


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Libre firmware?

Posted Feb 5, 2026 0:43 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

The same goes for probably most firmware I guess

SOF itself can be based on two different embedded OSes; XTOS or Zephyr.

https://thesofproject.github.io/latest/architectures/

This reminds me that hardware vendors have been moving Linux off into a corner for years:

https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi21/presentation/fri...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36myc8wQhLo


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