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."
(Score: 4, Informative) by citizenr on Tuesday March 04 2014, @02:26PM
VideoCore IV is dead commercially. Broadcom blew it in the mobile market, even startups like Vivante overtook them shipping stuff in Chinese fly by night units (Actions, Rockchip) and brand names (Freescale). Broadcom is currently not shipping anything with VideoCore IV.
Releasing code is a really nice gesture by them, but its 2 years too late. Imagine shipping Rasppi with this documentation.
(Score: 3) by Foobar Bazbot on Tuesday March 04 2014, @02:34PM
Yeah, then instead of being the only thing besides bitcoin I ever saw on /. for months, RaspPi could have... been the only thing besides bitcoin I ever saw on /. for months.
I have no idea what actual sales numbers were, or how much better you think an open graphics driver would have made them, but they certainly couldn't have had any more hype than they did.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by TheRaven on Wednesday March 05 2014, @05:49AM
sudo mod me up