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- Embed this notice@mischievoustomato >that makes hw that can work without propietary blobs?
For GPUs, ironically nvidia and intel.
Intel Integrated cards up to 2008 have a free VBIOS and a fully free driver.
Nvidia GPUs up to the 700 series have free peripheral software and a fully free driver with acceptable (and improving) re-clocking thanks to nouveau.
There isn't yet a free VBIOS, but you can get GNUboot to simply not execute the proprietary Option EEPROM in the VBIOS and then nouveau in Linux-libre can later read the data out of the Option EEPROM without executing it - which means proprietary software doesn't get executed on your CPU (I am unsure if the nvidia VBIOS actually contains proprietary software other than the Option EEPROM and some BIOS callbacks that don't get executed - ideally the VBIOS would just be data tables).
The free panfrost driver supports many Mali GPUs used in Aarch64 SoC's, although the OS images for most SBC's are chock full of proprietary software; https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers
https://h-node.org/ is a good site to look for freedom-respecting hardware, note that some reports are erroneous.