This is a pretty dumb request. What are you going to do with a chunk of bits for a processor for which you don't even have a toolchain. There is nothing more to open source other than what is already there.
Asking for 'the blob' is akin to asking for the firmware source to a hard disk. Even if you had it you could not do much with it.
Though I agree that the parent comment was unhelpful and a bit ungrateful, there is at least one good reason to want source code, especially for one-of-a-kind GPU processors. It's just plain interesting.
Asking for 'the blob' is akin to asking for the firmware source to a hard disk. Even if you had it you could not do much with it.
Play. Is that not enough? I'd love to experiment with hard drive firmware, toy with different caching algorithms, learn about the algorithms that convert between the analog signals at the heads and the data sent to the host, etc.
You could do a lot with hackable HD firmware. For example recover data from bricked disks or find bugs or make sure that disk you're about to RMA is infact fully wiped, etc etc. That would be especially useful now that SSD's have "turn into brick" failure modes and frequent firmware bugs that trigger them. Other ideas: adding crypto or RAID-friendly knobs, making the filesystem and the on-SSD flash
fs aware of each other and parametrize accordingly, etc etc.
In fact sounds like Apple's latest Fusion Drive is a thing that requires disk firmware and filesystem to cooperate.
The Alphamosaic processor (branded VideoCore in its Broadcom incarnation) has also been marketed as a network and security accelerator in its previous life... It might well be useful for all kinds of stuff.
What are you going to do with it? Who knows, we don't know what the capabilities are. I also have an instinctive dislike of the odd GPU-driven boot process where something open and hackable like u-boot could have been used.
