Re: [libreplanet-discuss] How free can the snickerdoodle run?

[Tobias Platen]

On 06/09/2016 06:35 AM, Koz Ross wrote:
> I recently came across this on CrowdSupply:
> https://www.crowdsupply.com/krtkl/snickerdoodle (link can be viewed
> without JS).
> However, I am uncertain as to how free this thing can run. Specifically,
> I was
> curious about the following:
>
> a) Can this run a fully-free distro like Parabola or Trisquel?
> b) If a), what functionality would be impeded by doing this (due to nonfree
> drivers or whatever)?
> c) If a) and b), can the Zynq 'configurable microprocessors' sitting on
> that
> thing be programmed using free tools?
>
> If anyone could let me know about these things, I would be extremely
> grateful.
No, the Xilinx toolchain is proprietary and no one is working on a 
reverse engineering project. Neither Parabola nor Trisquel can run on 
ARM, the need to be ported first.
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