Hi @writersglen ,
@writersglen said in Ubuntu Touch on JingPad:
It’s curious that we seem to need a proprietary OS to unlock the bootloader when, as I understand, Android, the foundations of the JingPad OS, is open source. And more, when we’re striving to install an open source OS.
Is JingPad bootloader source code publicly available?
I’d be delighted to pay a bounty to anyone who can program and clearly document a totally Linux-based recipe for installing Ubuntu Source on the JingPad.
For all those who believe that we are in a digital age, I'm sorry to disappoint you. At most, we can speak of a semi-digital one, similar to the semi-automatic machines in automation. Because any interface between the digital and the human is unfortunately (or fortunately) still analog.
There would be as an example:
Screen, loudspeaker, the inner electronic, yes even the CPU works analog (many many electronic circuits in miniature size). It is only the hardware working together that allows us to have a digital world.
In order for them to work with each other, we need miniature software called drivers. Which are not "open source", and which hinder or prevent the "open source" operating system to get full access to the hardware. Unless the programmer has access to all the required "source code", both drivers and operating systems.
So hopefully it's not so strange now.
Greetings Mario 😉
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