Will it run some version of flash? (and yes I tried gnash to no avail).
I spent the weekend explaining to an 8 and 6 y/o that they can't share and look at other Scratch projects at scratch.mit.edu on the RPi :(
Turbocharged Raspberry Pi 2 unleashed
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ok. I find it rather rude to call a company 'assholes' for doing something that is 100% within their rights. They're releasing a chip that powers a relatively cheap fairly powerful computer, have supported the effort in as many ways as they could without giving up their competitive edge (when you're in a leadship position it is sometimes quite risky to open up too far), nobody forces anybody to buy the product and la…
Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm not sure what a disassembler has to do with datasheets?
I think he means that if no datasheet is available, you can try to reverse engineer it by using, say, a disassembler.
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#153This update is very welcome and for sure it will make people create more interesting "projects". Personally i'm very excited to get one of these to run owncloud at decent performance in my home. Also the possibility to install more Linux distributions or even Windows 10 will open much possibilities for development. Well Done!!
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're not, but it's been common practice in their industry for decades, and it's generally seen as beneficial to OEMs and users to have access to datasheets before purchase. This is why it's also commonplace for most chip manufacturers to offer free samples, even of chips upwards of $20 list price. Most of them even publish enough information to develop hardware and software to interact with these chips even withou…
I can see how you might think that seeing as how a lot of manufacturers in the low cost and hobby markets are quite liberal with their datasheets . but it is not uncommon in regards to the higher end soc companies like marvel,qualcom or in this case broadcom.
"Low cost and hobby market" companies like Intel, TI, NXP etc..?
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#155Am I weird for wanting to use this for really simple web hosting?
Nope. The Pi makes a lot of sense for a simple web server with a robust SQL/NOSQL database backend running with Node/Go. If you have a good internet connection with a good upload speed, you can easily run a server able to take a couple of hundred hits a minute. It is certainly a better option than using the cloud for prototyping, where a wrong for loop can instantiate loads of instances and bill you a hell lot.
Do you think your ISP will let your host a webserver without asking them first?
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the same: Broadcom is still the non-datasheet-releasing, our-chips-implementing-standard-phy-spec functionality are subject to manhattan-project secrecy, assholes.
Except that Broadcom released "full documentation for the VideoCore IV graphics core, and a complete source release of the graphics stack under a 3-clause BSD license" [1], enough to enable a blob-free graphics driver. Code has already been committed to Mesa [2]. That is a lot more than you can say about the PowerVR core in the Beaglebone advocated by another response to this post. [1] http://www.raspberrypi.org/a-bi…
Beaglebone can be at least booted without non-free blobs, so it can be 100% free if you don't need to use 3D acceleration. Raspberry Pi cannot - even now with free GPU drivers, you still cannot get Linux working without providing non-free firmware blob to it first.
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#157Why didn't they just skip to Cortex A53? It would've been worth waiting a year longer for that.
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#158Will it run some version of flash? (and yes I tried gnash to no avail). I spent the weekend explaining to an 8 and 6 y/o that they can't share and look at other Scratch projects at scratch.mit.edu on the RPi :(
Not sure if this might help: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8982251
Probably a performance hit - but with the js performance arms race - maybe not!
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#159Am I weird for wanting to use this for really simple web hosting?
Nope. The Pi makes a lot of sense for a simple web server with a robust SQL/NOSQL database backend running with Node/Go. If you have a good internet connection with a good upload speed, you can easily run a server able to take a couple of hundred hits a minute. It is certainly a better option than using the cloud for prototyping, where a wrong for loop can instantiate loads of instances and bill you a hell lot.
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#160What's the same: - Same form factor as the model B+ (your enclosures and daughter boards should still fit). - Same full size HDMI port - Same 10/100 Ethernet port - Same CSI camera port and DSI display ports - Same micro USB power supply connection What has changed: - A new turbocharged Broadcom BCM2836 900MHz quad-core system-on-chip with performance at least 6x that of the B+. - 1GB of RAM Source: http://raspberry.…
Will Mathematica still ship with it and will the 6x performance increase make it be actually usable? What's the per-core increase?
Real-world max for single-thread speedup is probably the 3x quoted for the cache-busting SunSpider benchmark, with around 1.5x being more common. In terms of issue width, the new core is only a modest improvement as the Cortex-A7 is largely single-issue.