My U-Boot SPL work to replace the proprietary bl2.bin blob on Amlogic gxbb and gxl SoCs finally got merged into the Amlogic custodians tree \o/

I would like to thank everyone that got involved in one way or another into this effort, you're awesome!

But it isn't over yet! I have more things planned in that area ^^ any help welcome as always

https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/176544997866.2550755.6380353806583614603.b4-ty@linaro.org/T/#t

@fun congrats!!

is the Mi TV Stick going to be the next 100% Libre Zero Blob GNU RYF Certified ™ device? xD

@valpackett no, not yet, neither are any of the other devices that work with this U-Boot SPL. bl2.bin is, however, the remaining firmware blob that runs on the Cortex-A.

Anyway, there's still bl30.bin/SCP_BL2 which runs on a Cortex-M CPU of the SoC. Plus, there's still some things to be ironed out (DRAM mainly, but also size constraints)

@valpackett Also Mi TV Stick is a pain in the neck to get unsigned firmware booting. In any case, this work doesn't just affect Mi TV Stick, but also other actually nice boards such as the Libre Computer AML-S905X-CC (which they generously donated to me) and the ODROID-C2 :)

@fun very cool, congrats!

@eloy Thanks, Eloy. :)