[chbot] ARM boards

[Simon Chester]

One of the founders of Raspberry Pi, Eben Upton, is a SoC architect at
Broadcom.
That's how they got hold of the chip, which is normally only available in
very large quantities.

According to the FAQ <http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs>, there will be a
binary driver for the GPU, but it didn't mention any of the other hardware.

Simon

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Volker Kuhlmann
<list0570 at paradise.net.nz>wrote:

> On Fri 18 Nov 2011 22:33:00 NZDT +1300, Michael Field wrote:
>
> > Over at http://www.raspberrypi.org <http://www.raspberrypi.org/> the
> > Raspberry Pi has almost finished baking
>
> The original question was to "run a few sensors", for which the RPi
> rather sounds like overkill - it's more a game/multimedia console. Still
> very interesting. Not sure it's open hardware. I was about to say I'll
> have one just for the fun when I looked for the datasheet of the
> Broadcom SoC chip they want to use, and find /. says "in typical
> Broadcom fashion, no information and let alone a datasheet is
> available". Shame, the project looked promising, pity they killed it by
> using a proprietary NDA part that's only of any use after heaps of
> reverse engineering. Or were they thinking of shipping a bunch of
> binary-only drivers?
>
> Volker
>
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