[wplug] Raspberry Pi bulk order.
Jonathan Billings
billings at negate.org
Tue Oct 18 08:37:23 EDT 2011
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 07:24:18PM -0500, Drew from Zhrodague wrote:
> * GPU core: a Broadcom VideoCore GPU providing OpenGL ES 1.1,
> OpenGL ES 2.0, hardware-accelerated OpenVG 1.1, Open EGL, OpenMAX and
> 1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode. There are 24 GFLOPS of general
> purpose compute and a bunch of texture filtering and DMA infrastructure.
> Eben worked on the architecture team for this and the Raspberry Pi team
> are looking at how they can make some of the proprietary features
> available to application programmers
For those of you with open software preferences, I do recall hearing
that the GPU relies on a binary blob that isn't completely open, due
to some agreements with the hardware vendor. Just so you know.
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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
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