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

[Pete Wright]

hey, that's fantastic!  thanks for the heads-up gman.

-p

On 10/24/12 07:57, George Rosamond wrote:
> 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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