[coreboot] Hardware needed for flashing a T530

[Mike Banon]

> It's a USB device

I thought that USB could be hardwired, at least USB 2.0, because e.g.
for my laptop I only need XHCI blob if I want USB 3.0 to work,
otherwise all the ports are USB 2.0 but no blobs are needed for them
to work.

> Please be (much!!) more specific about how AM335x is "not completely open".

Beaglebone's AM335x includes PowerVR GPU which is not functional
without nonfree blobs. But maybe it's not a problem if you'd be
running it in a headless mode.

> You didn't answer whether you have looked at spruh73.

If I understood it correctly that spruh73 is a codename for AM335x
then it's the same situation described above (nonfree blob required
for PowerVR GPU)

Best regards,
Mike Banon
On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 3:52 AM Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:
>
> Mike Banon wrote:
> > CH341A is made by Jiangsu QinHeng Ltd., and there's a datasheet -
> > http://www.anok.ceti.pl/download/ch341ds1.pdf - according to which
> > this CH341A has just a few config registers, no internal memory for
> > any firmware
>
> It's a USB device; if you look at the USB protocol you'll quickly
> realise that it's quite likely that every single USB device runs
> firmware - you just never see it with some devices.
>
>
> > > Peter Stuge wrote:
> > > You can't possibly be equating Broadcom to TI in terms of openness?
> >
> > Indeed TI is more open than Broadcom, but still not completely open.
>
> Please be (much!!) more specific about how AM335x is "not completely open".
>
> You didn't answer whether you have looked at spruh73.
>
>
> > I don't know any single board computer that has been endorsed by Free
> > Software Foundation,
>
> Is that your primary metric, or do you rather try to find facts yourself?
>
>
> //Peter
>
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