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| Authored by: Ian Al on Thursday, October 25 2012 @ 04:24 AM EDT |
I have just taken delivery of two, Revision 2, 512MB RAM Raspberry Pis.
Now, that's big news!
PS, they seem much nippier using the new Turbo Power (no, I mustn't call it
that) feature. I have tried my original and one of the new Pis bursting up to
1GB processor speed and the temperature never goes above 45°C. Even Midori is
quite useable.
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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 25 2012 @ 09:20 AM EDT |
| Those news are not as
great as they are made out to be.
What really happened is that an open
source driver that is nothing more than a shim was released while the still
closed secret sauce hardware driver runs on a separate processor inside the
graphics unit. The open driver does not have access to the actual hardware, it
just passes along OpenGL commands and data.
This means that you still can't
do all the things that could be done with an open driver – namely implement new
features, integrate interfaces for interacting with new infrastructure or even
just plain bug fixing. It means you don't have to link in binary blobs into
Raspberry Pi kernels, which is nice. However it's hardly such an improvement to
warrant the big news frenzy surrounding it. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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