A birthday present from Broadcom
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A birthday present from Broadcom
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Re: A birthday present from Broadcom
#2This is awesome news. I hope other vendors follow suit.
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#3This is great news. Hopefully this means that ports of android and chromiumOS will be able to utilize this.
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#4>"Earlier today, Broadcom announced the release of full documentation for the VideoCore IV graphics core, and a complete source release of the graphics stack under a 3-clause BSD license. The source release targets the BCM21553 cellphone chip, but it should be reasonably straightforward to port this to the BCM2835, allowing access to the graphics core without using the blob. As an incentive to do this work, we will pay a bounty of $10,000 to the first person to demonstrate to us satisfactorily that they can successfully run Quake III at a playable framerate on Raspberry Pi using these drivers. "
At last!
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#5That's really a surprise. Broadcom is cemented in my mind as one of the hardest companies to get even basic datasheets out of.
I know the saying is "don't look a gift horse in the mouth", but could it be that their graphics cores are not competitive in pure technical capabilities, so they've decided to compete on open-ness? I'm not really involved in that area of hardware/software.
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#6This has been my biggest disappointment about the raspi since day one. If true, this is huge news indeed.
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#7They donate to WebKit? I thought that was fully funded by apple.
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#8This is a step in the right direction. Does this mean that the RaspberryPi can run blob-free now or with one less blob? I don't know what else is needed for the SoC to operate.
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#9They donate to WebKit? I thought that was fully funded by apple.
Google funds WebKit as well.