wraggster
October 24th, 2012, 20:27
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If you’ve been following the developments of building Android, Chromium, and other OSes for the Raspberry Pi, you’ll come across a common theme. The drivers for the Raspi’s chip are closed source and protected by Broadcom with an NDA. This limits the ability of devs to take on projects that involve messing around deep inside the CPU.
Today, this is no longer the case (http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221). The CPU on the Raspberry Pi is now the first ARM-based system with fully functional, vendor-provided drivers.
Previously, the drivers for OpenGL ES, OpenMax, and other goodies inside the ARM chip have been closed source, available only to the Raspberry Pi foundation and those willing to sign a non-disclosure agreement with Broadcom. With this release, the drivers are open source, allowing the devs behind the Android, Chromium, Haiku, *BSD, and the RISC OS to dig deep into the Broadcom drivers and get their projects working.
The new files are available in the Raspberry Pi git (https://github.com/raspberrypi/userland), just waiting for devs to take a look at it.
http://hackaday.com/2012/10/24/rasperry-pi-now-mostly-open-source/
If you’ve been following the developments of building Android, Chromium, and other OSes for the Raspberry Pi, you’ll come across a common theme. The drivers for the Raspi’s chip are closed source and protected by Broadcom with an NDA. This limits the ability of devs to take on projects that involve messing around deep inside the CPU.
Today, this is no longer the case (http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221). The CPU on the Raspberry Pi is now the first ARM-based system with fully functional, vendor-provided drivers.
Previously, the drivers for OpenGL ES, OpenMax, and other goodies inside the ARM chip have been closed source, available only to the Raspberry Pi foundation and those willing to sign a non-disclosure agreement with Broadcom. With this release, the drivers are open source, allowing the devs behind the Android, Chromium, Haiku, *BSD, and the RISC OS to dig deep into the Broadcom drivers and get their projects working.
The new files are available in the Raspberry Pi git (https://github.com/raspberrypi/userland), just waiting for devs to take a look at it.
http://hackaday.com/2012/10/24/rasperry-pi-now-mostly-open-source/