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Originally Posted by wicket View Post
It varies from device to device but you might be surprised to know that many of the features you've listed often do not require a binary driver or loadable firmware. They are often supported by the kernel which is of course open source. When I run Debian or Devuan on my N900, the only binary blob I need to use is the loadable firmware for wireless network connectivity. WiFi is a frequently problem on many devices but Replicant offers connectivity via an external Wi-Fi dongle as an alternative to binary blobs for certain devices. This could probably be done on the N900 too once USB host mode has been mainlined.
Are you sure? I thought the alternative WL1251 Driver was completely open.

see: https://david.gnedt.at/blog/wl1251/

Or am I missing something?
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