Does Glass required proprietary binary blobs to be combined with the GPL source like the Nexus devices (pinning you to a narrow range of kernel versions), or is it actually open through and through?
Google Glass kernel GPL source
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Re: Google Glass kernel GPL source
#12If this doesn't illustrate it I don't know what would-- just because it runs open source does not mean it's open.
Care to elaborate on that? I'm a little confused on the wording.
Re: Google Glass kernel GPL source
#13Does Glass required proprietary binary blobs to be combined with the GPL source like the Nexus devices (pinning you to a narrow range of kernel versions), or is it actually open through and through?
AFAIK the glasses crippleware (as in TiVo), so it doesn't realy matter if free or not.
Re: Google Glass kernel GPL source
#14Hope someone can clarify, I'm new at this.
Does this mean that you can take this kernel source, modify it and/or add extensions, and then deploy it on your google glass?
Re: Google Glass kernel GPL source
#15Does Glass required proprietary binary blobs to be combined with the GPL source like the Nexus devices (pinning you to a narrow range of kernel versions), or is it actually open through and through?
I don't know specifically about the drivers in Glass but it's based on the pretty old TI OMAP4 platform which was in the Galaxy Nexus, and I think out of the SoC manufacturers TI is (well, was, since they stopped making OMAP) the most open by far.
Re: Google Glass kernel GPL source
#16Does Glass required proprietary binary blobs to be combined with the GPL source like the Nexus devices (pinning you to a narrow range of kernel versions), or is it actually open through and through?
I don't know specifically about the drivers in Glass but it's based on the pretty old TI OMAP4 platform which was in the Galaxy Nexus, and I think out of the SoC manufacturers TI is (well, was, since they stopped making OMAP) the most open by far.
They'll be IMGTec blobs for the SGX GPU then
edit/clarification: These won't be blobs in the kernel but they'll be IMGTec binary libraries. So in practice it's slightly less annoying for kernel hacking.
Re: Google Glass kernel GPL source
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#19Does Glass required proprietary binary blobs to be combined with the GPL source like the Nexus devices (pinning you to a narrow range of kernel versions), or is it actually open through and through?
AFAIK the glasses crippleware (as in TiVo), so it doesn't realy matter if free or not.
Could you elaborate? I have no idea what you're referencing.
Re: Google Glass kernel GPL source
#20The git repository is empty. The actual source is available at https://code.google.com/p/google-glass-kernel-source/downloa...
Yes, it will get pushed to AOSP when JBQ gets back.
I hid the source tab for now.