via epia p910 10q and free software?

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tonlee
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http://www.viaembeddedstore.com/boards/x86-boards/via-epia-p910-10q-pico-itx.html

I know, I do not know more than people around here and fsf. I have found this via mainboard. It says, there are linux drivers available. I cannot find a location where the drivers can be downloaded. The drivers are part of gnulinux? Gnulinux drivers are available. That does not mean that the drivers are open source or free software? If the gnulinux drivers are free software, then the mainboard could become free software compliant, could a free software bios be provided? If via will not release documentation about the bios that is likely an unsolvable task?

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https://viaembedded.github.io/docs/epia-p910-user/drivers.html#linux-driver-support
suggests them having nonfree drivers, I don't know what free drivers
exist for the GPU in VX11H (Openchrome lists it as unsupported).

For free boot firmware: the chipset is not supported in coreboot,
depending on skills you need months to years for a port. It might be
easier if you can get appropriate documentation. VIA Nano CPU needs
nonfree microcode patch for at least changing frequency/voltage, it's
possible that the CPU in P910 needs it too.