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Royce Pipkins  
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 More options Oct 24 2012, 10:05 am
From: Royce Pipkins <royce.pipk...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:05:25 -0500
Local: Wed, Oct 24 2012 10:05 am
Subject: Raspberry Pi video drivers opened
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I saw this on the Adafruit blog.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221

It definitely makes the board a more interesting platform. Its also really
great to see a company like Broadcom take such a step.

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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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 More options Oct 24 2012, 2:54 pm
From: Royce Pipkins <royce.pipk...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:54:36 -0500
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Subject: Re: Raspberry Pi video drivers opened
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I've read more about this and it seems like the step taken was not quite
the step advertised. What they exposed was the GL interface to the
VideoCore GPU. The code running on the VideoCore is still heavily locked
down. If you want in the VideoCore its NDA city. The ARM core code that
marshals GL call arguments/return values and sends them to/from the
VideoCore is what is now open source. So a GPL program could use direct GL
calls now.

Still a good step in the right direction but they should have been clearer
about what was being released.

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Royce Pipkins <royce.pipk...@gmail.com>wrote:

> I saw this on the Adafruit blog.

> http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221

> It definitely makes the board a more interesting platform. Its also really
> great to see a company like Broadcom take such a step.

> --
> The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
> B. F. Skinner

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