Raspberry Pi opens up
people having one will love that, so do I: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Raspberry-Pi-opens-its-ARM-graphics-c... Is there actually anyone else in the group having one? Sven
Ordered from RS in July, anxiously awaiting delivery :/ This is good news - at the very least a good step in the right direction. On 25 October 2012 12:53, Sven@GMX <Sven_Andriske@gmx.net> wrote:
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Raspberry-Pi-opens-its-ARM-graphics-c...
Is there actually anyone else in the group having one?
In response to posts about Raspberry Pi (sorry for delay in answering): To Sven:
Is there actually anyone else in the group having one?
Yep, me. To Nathan:
Ordered from RS in July, anxiously awaiting delivery :/
That's not so good. I ordered mine from Element14 (ex Farnell) on the purely sentimental reason that their Australia operation is located in Chester Hill, NSW, which is the next suburb from where I grew up as a kid. But it seems like I make a lucky correct choice -- fast delivery. I ordered late one night, they shipped the next day, and the order arrived by Express Post the day after. They have free express postage for orders over (I think) $40. Much quicker than still waiting since July with RS. Skipping details, I ordered a few Pis while I could for a few projects that I won't really be able to work on fully until later this year, so I'd be glad to lend you one of my Pis while you're waiting for yours to arrive. Alternatively, I could set up one of my Pis at home for ssh access back through my ADSL connection. It wouldn't be fast, but you could at least try out some compiles and such. Anyway, I don't want to clutter the FSM list with too much Raspberry Pi traffic. Maybe we could shift to a Pi subgroup.
This is good news - at the very least a good step in the right direction.
Yes, modulo later comments by Chris. -- Smiles, Les.
On 25/10/12 12:53, Sven@GMX wrote:
people having one will love that, so do I:
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Raspberry-Pi-opens-its-ARM-graphics-c...
Sadly it's no where near as good as it sounds and won't get merged into the mainline kernel, the kernel graphics maintainer Dave Airlie put's it like this.. http://airlied.livejournal.com/76383.html # So to start the GLES implementation is on the GPU via a firmware. # It provides a high level GLES RPC interface. The newly opened # source code just does some marshalling and shoves it over the RPC. # # Why is this bad? # You cannot make any improvements to their GLES implementation, you # cannot add any new extensions, you can't fix any bugs, you can't do # anything with it. You can't write a Mesa/Gallium driver for it. In # other words you just can't. [...] # # Will this mean the broadcom kernel driver will get merged? # No. # # This is like Ethernet cards with TCP offload, where the full TCP/IP # stack is run on the Ethernet card firmware. These cards seem like a # good plan until you find bugs in their firmware stack or find out # their TCP/IP implementation isn't actually any good. The same # problem will occur with this. I would take bets the GLES # implementation sucks, because they all do, but the whole point of # open sourcing something is to allow other to improve it something # that can't be done in this case. -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC
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