Good alternative for Raspberry?

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Raspberrypi use non-free firmware for boot and gpu, is an excellent project for hardware and cost (is really cheap). But..

vrmsNon-free packages installed on rpi4-20231111

bluez-firmware                      Firmware for Bluetooth devicesfirmware-brcm80211                  Binary firmware for Broadcom/Cypress 802.11 wireless craspi-firmware                      Raspberry Pi family GPU firmware and bootloaders

I don’t think is possible to remove it and boot or use gpu, anyone know a good alternative for replacing in the future Raspberrypi?

The rules

  • If possible with gnu-boot
  • Or at least coreboot/libreboot
  • Must run with libre-kernel

Any idea?Thanks

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More expensive than Rpi, but you can get this with coreboot (they call it “firewall” but it’s just a computer, you can use it for anything):

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Seems nice and not too expensive. What about 3d accelleration?

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I don’t know what that means. :slight_smile:

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I would to ask if someone has tried this micropc as multimedia device, and what about the 3d performance. I read some models use intel graphic hd.

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3D performance in all RaspberryPI is Super Terrible.

Los Angeles, California. :heart:

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Do the products from Pine64 fit these criteria? I’ve never purchased any of their single-board computers, but seems worth looking at ?

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Agree.

I just tried yesterday to setup a “decoder” for tv, here’s the results

Debian trixie: ext4 corruptions, 3d poor on kodi watching a dvb-t channel

Raspi-os: ext4 ok, 3d poor but now I’m trying with a new config.txt (tried, 3d remain poor)

Minilinuxdvb: btrfs ok, experimental but strangely more “nice” than other distro’s, 3d video performance perfect (tested with vdr), some problems with kodi (extreme poor video performance), probably I will retry if Raspi-os kodi + new.config don’t works fine today

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Never tried it, as I know is open hardware, but..

no gnu-boot firmware, no libreboot, no coreboot

the master proof was to run it with libre-kernel, if something don’t work simply need proprietary firmware

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Maybe this doesn’t count but I was carrying around a raspberry pi earlier and I switched now to carrying around a system76 meerkat. This meerkat is about the same physical size - a little box thing – but has 8TB of storage and 96GM of RAM. Is the solution to computing going to be little super boxes like this, for example if Librem Mini catches up?

If they’re not much bigger than a pi, and they’re more powerful than the “desktop PCs” of my youth, is a bit difficult to picture needing much more than that.

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It depends on your use case(s).

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That’s broadcast video, right? Where does the 3d come in?

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