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Microsoft opens sources ThreadX under MIT license (www.theregister.com)
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The 'Azure RTOS' used in millions of Raspberry Pis is now FOSS

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[โ€“] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder what the implication would be for the pis?

[โ€“] flakeshake@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nothing. The Raspberry Pi Foundation is rather outspoken on abandoning the firmware and replacing it with regular in-kernel Linux drivers on newer hardware and has made progress on that front. Furthermore, the userpace of the firmware is all secret Broadcom code, Microsoft has only open-sourced the kernel of the Pi firmware. Older models will probably need the firmware forever.