Dodoid's Computing Freedom Table

Shown configurations are the most-free currently attainable on each model and may not reflect that model's configuration as-sold.

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Pine64 PinePhone

mobile/pine64/pinephone (platform)

Property Description
Manufacturer
Pine64
Model
PinePhone
Year
2020
Max CPU
Allwinner A64
Max RAM
3GB
Image
PinePhone (credit Pine64) (https://pine64.org/devices/images/pinephone.png)
Software: User-Facing Environment
Free
Software: Operating System
Free
Software: Bootloader/Recovery
Free (uboot)
Firmware: Trusted Execution Environment (e.g. x86 SMM)
Upstream Arm Trusted Firmware (BL31)
Supported (sun50i_a64) in upstream TF-A.
Firmware: Late Boot/Payload
Free (uboot)
Firmware: Platform Initialization
Free (uboot)
Firmware: Graphics Initialization
Free (uboot)
Firmware: Memory Initialization
Free (uboot SPL native)
Firmware: Early Boot (incl. RoT)
Free (uboot SPL)
Firmware: Boot ROM
Proprietary
Firmware Signing
Not Present
CPU Microcode
Not microcoded
Management Coprocessor: Firmware
SCP firmware (crust)
Network Interface: Internal Firmware
Free-ish modem AP, proprietary baseband
The Modem Distro provides mostly-free firmware for the Quectel EG25-G cellular modem's Application Processor, but not for its Baseband Processor.
Network Interface: Host-Loaded Firmware
Proprietary (brcmfmac43455 WiFi firmware)
Security Coprocessor: Firmware
Not Present
Embedded Controller: Firmware
Not Present
Hardware: Board Electrical Schematic
Published
Hardware: Board PCB Design
Part locations only
Hardware: CPU Instruction Set
Proprietary (Arm)
Hardware: CPU/SoC Implementation
Proprietary
Hardware: CPU/SoC Synthesis Toolchain
Proprietary

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