Boot mainline kernel without proprietary firmware on Banana Pi BPI-M2 zero

Banana Pi SBCs design BPI-M2+/BPI-M2 Zero/BPI-P2 Zero(H3)
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Is Banana Pi BPI-M2 Zero compatible with recent mainline/vanilla Linux kernel (~6.3)?

Is it true that Banana Pi BPI-M2 Zero does not require any proprietary firmware to boot?

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True. Already possible (in theory, if DT and board existed) since Linux 4 ->

More info: https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_history

For U-boot also about that time.

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