Does anyone know about storage firmware (and other firmware) of the main three free projects?
Please add more projects if you know of any.
The three projects I know of with freedom on the menu is the EOMA68 (I remember vaguely someone mentioning that EOMA68 is actually just the name of the form factor, yet still the https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop project has basically capped the name EOMA68 for their project. I find that... sort of wierd, anyway I digress), Pyra and Raptor Computing.
On their respective sites (Yes Zigote, Jxself and Magic Banana; I have actually tried to look before asking) I can't seem to find any information regarding the firmware on the storage. Does anyone know about this? Is it even possilble for a computing device to be 100% free?
"firmware on the storage"
Do you mean like on HDD & SSD? That is unchanged. The only projects I know of for that are http://openssd-project.org/ and http://openssd.io/ but even these are not perfect.
"Is it even possilble for a computing device to be 100% free?"
Not at present. The technology to do so does not exist but that doesn't mean we shouldn't keep pushing.
>Not at present. The technology to do so does not exist but that doesn't mean we shouldn't keep pushing.
I'd totally support a project like that :)
My definition for free hardware would be that someone could download a freely-licensed design of something, say a CPU or even the entire motherboard. Then potentially make changes to it if they wanted, and eventually "3D print" their modified/custom/one-off thing in the comfort of their bedroom. The technology to do that doesn't currently exist. Once it does then I'd agree that free hardware has finally arrived. (I put it in quotes there because it won't be that exact technology but something else.)
> The technology to do that doesn't currently exist.
Ever asked yourself why?
>but even these are not perfect.
In what sense? :)
>but that doesn't mean we shouldn't keep pushing.
How to push? Can I support?
> Is it even possilble for a computing device to be 100% free?
"Free" (open/modifiable/redistributable) is not a matter of technology but of how it is made available to others (policies, licenses, laws). In a competitive environment where the norm is "me first, everyone else second" anyone who makes something open and hopes to live on donations will simply be starving. That's why most things are proprietary.