Re: Banana Pi BPI-R4 support?

[Wilko Meyer]

Hi Attila,

Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name> writes:
> MediaTek MT7988A (Filogic 880)

I don't know too much about the Filogic 880, but from my experience the
number of SBC platforms that work entirely on free software is sadly
pretty sparse.

> with that in mind: how hard/hopeless would this task be? both 1)
> technically (if we ignore any possible use of blobs), and also 2)
> regarding the FSDG standard?

Technically it *could* be as easy as easy as building an image around a
custom u-boot variant package and a linux-libre-arm64-generic kernel
package. There are some examples for this in the gnu/system/images
(rock64 and some other iirc) and gnu/system/examples (for beaglebone
black at least) tree of guixes repository for reference. Realistically
my guess would be that you'd run into firmware/binary blob issues and
GNU FSDG issues rather quickly.

-- 
Kind regards,

Wilko Meyer
w@wmeyer.eu