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Raspberry Pi's $10K Bounty for Graphics Port

posted by girlwhowaspluggedout on Tuesday March 04 2014, @01:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-only-way-to-win-is-play dept.

FrogBlast writes:

"Last week, Broadcom released the full source of the OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0 driver stack for the Broadcom VideoCore IV 3D graphics core, which they provide under a 3-clause BSD license. The VideoCore IV core is used in many of Broadcom's processors, including the BCM2835 chip, which is used in the Raspberry Pi.

But because the release targets the BCM21553 3G cellphone chip, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced a bounty of $10,000 to the first person to port it to the BCM2835 chip and successfully run Quake III 'at a resolution of 1920-1080 and a minimum of 20fps, without making use of the capabilities of the blob'. The port, it says, 'should be reasonably straightforward' to accomplish."

 
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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by WizardFusion on Tuesday March 04 2014, @01:25PM

    by WizardFusion (498) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @01:25PM (#10785)

    Looking at the following pages, they look like completely different chips to me.? Is this even possible.?

    http://www.broadcom.com/products/Cellular/3G-Baseb and-Processors/BCM21553/ [broadcom.com]
    http://www.broadcom.com/products/BCM2835/ [broadcom.com]

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by WizardFusion on Tuesday March 04 2014, @01:29PM

    by WizardFusion (498) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @01:29PM (#10792)

    Replying to myself:
    Apparently it can be done, TFA states it should be possible:

    Experienced programmers can:
    Develop fully open drivers for other VideoCore devices, including the Raspberry Pi’s BCM2835 and the BCM21654 (a low-cost 3G integrated baseband for emerging markets).

  • (Score: 1) by loufoque on Tuesday March 04 2014, @03:37PM

    by loufoque (2544) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @03:37PM (#10898)

    Both look like error 404 to me.

    • (Score: 1) by Toaster42 on Tuesday March 04 2014, @03:59PM

      by Toaster42 (3581) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @03:59PM (#10912) Homepage

      Me too... Soylent Effect?

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