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      9 months ago

      They mean that the device manufacturer and or hardware vendors are no longer putting out updates for the proprietary blobs.

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        9 months ago

        I dont know if it even has to be proprietary. Vendors need to sign the firmware too.

        Yeah, really bad.

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          That’s why we work to mainline devices. It is very hard and there are only a handful of devices that work with mainline Linux but it simplifies a lot of things.