[SGVHAK] Raspberry Pi GPU Driver Now Opensource

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Here is a much less gentle assessment:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxNDk

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So really Rasberry Pi and Broadcom - get a big FAIL for even bothering
to make a press release for this, if they'd just stuck the code out
there and gone on with things it would have been fine, nobody would
have been any happier, but some idiot thought this crappy shim layer
deserved a press release, pointless."
</quote>

The point is that more functionality than the community expected is
being handled within the GPU, so it turns out that the juicy bits are
still closed source.


On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 7:53 AM, James McDuffie <mcduffie at pitfall.org> wrote:
> More details and analysis at the link below, such as the fact that driver
> mostly just forwards calls to the videocore firmware which are still closed
> source binary blobs.
> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Raspberry-Pi-opens-its-ARM-graphics-code-1735262.html
>
>
> James McDuffie <mcduffie at pitfall.org> wrote:
>>
>> Good news everyone, Broadcom has open sourced their GPU driver for the one
>> that's on the Raspberry Pi. This will hopefully lead to an optimized X
>> driver!
>> http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221