One of the founders of Raspberry Pi, Eben Upton, is a SoC architect at Broadcom.<div>That's how they got hold of the chip, which is normally only available in very large quantities.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the <a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs">FAQ</a>, there will be a binary driver for the GPU, but it didn't mention any of the other hardware.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Simon<br><div><div> </div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Volker Kuhlmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:list0570@paradise.net.nz">list0570@paradise.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">On Fri 18 Nov 2011 22:33:00 NZDT +1300, Michael Field wrote:<br>
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> Over at <a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org" target="_blank">http://www.raspberrypi.org</a> <<a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/" target="_blank">http://www.raspberrypi.org/</a>> the<br>
<div class="im">> Raspberry Pi has almost finished baking<br>
<br>
</div>The original question was to "run a few sensors", for which the RPi<br>
rather sounds like overkill - it's more a game/multimedia console. Still<br>
very interesting. Not sure it's open hardware. I was about to say I'll<br>
have one just for the fun when I looked for the datasheet of the<br>
Broadcom SoC chip they want to use, and find /. says "in typical<br>
Broadcom fashion, no information and let alone a datasheet is<br>
available". Shame, the project looked promising, pity they killed it by<br>
using a proprietary NDA part that's only of any use after heaps of<br>
reverse engineering. Or were they thinking of shipping a bunch of<br>
binary-only drivers?<br>
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Volker<br>
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