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Andrius Štikonas
Personal blog · stikonas.eu/wordpressprogrammingsystems
Andrius Štikonas's personal blog at stikonas.eu covers programming and systems. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog as documentation that certain ARM boards, such as the RockPro64 and RK3399-based boards, can boot with no binary blobs. Commenters cite its blob-free boot post as evidence.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /wordpress/2019/09/15/blobless-boot-with-rockpro64/4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-01-18
What Hacker News says?
You can have computers that you own today. There is a list here: https://ryf.fsf.org/categories/laptops . If you want something more powerful, there're these: - https://ryf.fsf.org/categories/workstations-and-servers - https://ryf.fsf.org/categories/mainboards Also, Andrius Stikonas achieved a blob-free fully functioning (AFAIK) RockPro64 more than a year ago: https://stikonas.eu/wordpress/2019/09/15/blobless-boot-w…
Comment linking /wordpress/2019/09/15/blobless-boot-with-rockpro64/
on “I want a computer that I own”Submitted Building flatpaks and Freedesktop SDK from scratch as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou're wrong, but with such confidence! Here is a documented ARM booting sequence with fully free firmware, https://stikonas.eu/wordpress/2019/09/15/blobless-boot-with-...
Comment linking /wordpress/2019/09/15/blobless-boot-with-rockpro64/
on “NSA Owns Everything (2015)”Submitted Building Flatpaks and Freedesktop SDK from Scratch as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSome RK3399 boards can be used AFAIK entirely blob free. This has been true for a few years actually: https://stikonas.eu/wordpress/2019/09/15/blobless-boot-with-...
Comment linking /wordpress/2019/09/15/blobless-boot-with-rockpro64/
on “LibreRPi – open source replacements for RPi firmware”[2] https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2019/12/20/open... [3] https://stikonas.eu/wordpress/2019/09/15/blobless-boot-with-...
Comment linking /wordpress/2019/09/15/blobless-boot-with-rockpro64/
on “Trying out the Pinebook Pro – a $200 ARM Laptop”Hi Leah! I think the RockPro64 [1] as well as the rockpi4 can be run without any binary blobs. Why I don't see any vendor considering ryf-certifiying devices based on them? [1] https://stikonas.eu/wordpress/2019/09/15/blobless-boot-with-...
Comment linking /wordpress/2019/09/15/blobless-boot-with-rockpro64/
on “Ministry of Freedom – GNU+Linux laptops with Libreboot preinstalled”> If you are familiar with work done in the FOSS community to procure devices with fully open firmware, the name Synopsys may ring a bell here. Synopsys is a company which sells IP blocks[...]. One of their IP block products is a DDR4 memory controller and PHY solution, which appears popular and which is found in a number of SoCs. It is however a known fact that Synopsys's DDR4 PHY requires a Synopsys-issued firmwar…
Comment linking /wordpress/2019/09/15/blobless-boot-with-rockpro64/
on “In the future even your RAM will have firmware; and the subject of POWER10 blobs”