[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.

-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>


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