Raspberry Pi video drivers opened
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Royce Pipkins
Oct 24, 2012, 10:05:25 AM10/24/12
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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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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.
B. F. Skinner
Royce Pipkins
Oct 24, 2012, 2:54:36 PM10/24/12
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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.
Still a good step in the right direction but they should have been clearer about what was being released.
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