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Open source driver released for Raspberry pi

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http://www.xda-developers.com/android/broadcom-releases-videocore-source-ported-to-bcm21553-socs/

 

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/6299

 

 

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. This competition is open worldwide, and you can find competition rules here which describe what you have to do, and how to enter.

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Interesting, too bad I have no idea how to do that

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Interesting, too bad I have no idea how to do that

fake it  :P

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FINALLY!!!!!! YAY!!

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Your profile pic is perfect. Exciting news nevertheless.

I only post on exciting news because of my profile picture /nope

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awesome. 

 

This is a little bit off topic but what ever happened to the super computer that was like as big as the raspberry pi?

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awesome. 

 

This is a little bit off topic but what ever happened to the super computer that was like as big as the raspberry pi?

 are you talking about the rack of raspberry pis that all work together ?

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 are you talking about the rack of raspberry pis that all work together ?

no its called the parrallella it was on kickstarter awhile ago.

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no its called the parrallella it was on kickstarter awhile ago.

Oh I had no clue...Checking it right now  :ph34r:

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Ok turns out this is a really really cool project! I would love to get my hands on one!

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Quake 3?Damn.My laptop lags on that game :o

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2.5 years ago i bought a SGA S5830i that runs on this retarded soc from broadcom i used it for almost for 2 years and during the time i had this device there was no way to get any documentation about chipset itself or any complete source code was made available so someone could actually port CM7.2 and get hw acceleration until Biel started to work on it since last march or april, after seeing the progress , i thought it was going somewhere but some bugs/issues were unbearable (like any game that is 3D lags on this device , bluetooth never works between S5830i's that runs CM7.2...) anyways since then i got no good feelings about broadcom and their "perfect" support for developers. i wont suggest anyone to get a device with broadcom soc in it (ofc since then i got myself a i9300 and i9190

i just cant have good feelings about broadcom it took them 2+ YEARS to get this stage...

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2.5 years ago i bought a SGA S5830i that runs on this retarded soc from broadcom i used it for almost for 2 years and during the time i had this device there was no way to get any documentation about chipset itself or any complete source code was made available so someone could actually port CM7.2 and get hw acceleration until Biel started to work on it since last march or april, after seeing the progress , i thought it was going somewhere but some bugs/issues were unbearable (like any game that is 3D lags on this device , bluetooth never works between S5830i's that runs CM7.2...) anyways since then i got no good feelings about broadcom and their "perfect" support for developers. i wont suggest anyone to get a device with broadcom soc in it (ofc since then i got myself a i9300 and i9190

i just cant have good feelings about broadcom it took them 2+ YEARS to get this stage...

ive never seen a broadcom soc on a phone since a long time

except routers :P

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i just love how they get the community involved like this just goes to show what kind of people they are, awesome ones :)

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