[nycbug-talk] Fwd: Re: BSD licensed Broadcom VideoCore driver

George Rosamond george at ceetonetechnology.com
Wed Oct 24 10:57:52 EDT 2012


For those no on FBSD-arm, interesting news from RaspberryPi.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: BSD licensed Broadcom VideoCore driver
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:51:21 -0400
From: George Neville-Neil
To: Adrian Chadd <adria
CC: freebsd-arm at fre


On Oct 24, 2012, at 09:38 , Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 24 October 2012 04:23, Sevan / Venture37 <venture37 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> The rpi foundation just posted this up.
>> http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221
>
> Ok, so the GPU is still the big binary blob, but the userland graphics
> chunk is now not a binary blob. Cool.
>
Yes, this is, I hope, in part due to my talking to them when I was in 
Cambridge.
At least they sent me a direct email about it as well.  We should see
how to get this stuff in, as there are lots of great things we can do,
and people we can get working on FreeBSD, if we have this in place.

Best,
George

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