Raspberry Pi
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Oops, xernobyl I meant.
xernobyl: Cos I'm using a video monitor and 4xFSAA at 1080p would probably be slow and eat all the vram that is needed for VBOs :)
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Raspi was supposed to be a uniform platform, but the different display resolutions/rates break that to some extent.
I am thinking that I will use PAL internal resolution in my future prods and upscale to native res using dispman. I already did that in Porky's Pi, but the internal resolution is 1280x720.
Hackberry Pi board with a faster CPU, more RAM and integrated WiFi.
Judging by my experience with Efika MX, Trim-Slice and Raspberry Pi, these boards aren't really about specs but product support and community. In the case of the first two the hardware wasn't ever properly supported, whereas RPi seems to have proper momentum and longevity to it.
My talk on graphics programming for the raspberry pi was approved. Ideas and suggestions are welcome :)
@Marq: True, but as long as it runs Ubuntu I'm fine with it... Aaand as I'd like to use the RPI in a PC / media-center solution 256MB is a bit on the low side. But I guess there's no one-size-fits-all-solution.
Btw: Low-cost ARM boards (the cubieboard is missing)
Btw: Low-cost ARM boards (the cubieboard is missing)
Just make sure that media acceleration functionality such as hw decoding and video overlay are properly supported, or otherwise you can kiss goodbye to hq video playback.
Ah well, fuck it. Ordered two Raspberry Pi's today. Just need to build some I²C / SPI level converters and we're GO for tinkering projects. Winter can come now... ;)
Has anyone managed to use GL_EXT_discard_framebuffer?
Btw: I ordered a Motorola Atrix Lapdock for my Pi (~70€). It has a keyboard + touchpad, a 11,2" screen (1366 x 768 resolution), speakers, an USB-hub (2 ports) and a battery that can power the Pi! You need some cables to make it work with the Pi, but you basically get a sort of "PiBook" in the end.
There was a "Move to newer version of GPU source tree (LKG56)" in the lastest firmware update of this brilliant "open" platform, however it seems near to impossible to know what really changed.
As far as the GPU is concerned it's probably about as closed as you can get - there's next to zero public information about it.
There has been a few sceners working on it though!
Model B upgraded to 512Mb RAM as standard
Obviously good news, but it does kind of kill off the notion of the Pi as a "write once, run everywhere" fixed demo platform :-/
Obviously good news, but it does kind of kill off the notion of the Pi as a "write once, run everywhere" fixed demo platform :-/
YESS! Great news. I really hope my order will turn up with 512MB installed...
So much for a fixed platform.
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Model B upgraded to 512Mb RAM as standard
Obviously good news, but it does kind of kill off the notion of the Pi as a "write once, run everywhere" fixed demo platform :-/
Gasman, guess no-one wants to be stuck with one of the 16k models.
Think of it like the Amiga, it started off with 256KB and then got 512KB. It ain't that bad, and the upgrade cost is hardly prohibitive.
I got my first Pi last Friday after a 6 month wait.
Its replacing a PIII system that currently has 512mb, i'm a little bit ''oh", but more of the "oh well!" type of ohs when I saw the news this morning. I got a bigger "oooooh" but in the "ooooh nice" way because literally last night (before this news came out) I placed an order for two more Pi-s so that I could dump some of the services across the two Pis with 256mb, I guess I am now getting two 512mb ones, weee, now the Pi "cluster" is officially an upgrade for the machine it is replacing... "lol".
Its replacing a PIII system that currently has 512mb, i'm a little bit ''oh", but more of the "oh well!" type of ohs when I saw the news this morning. I got a bigger "oooooh" but in the "ooooh nice" way because literally last night (before this news came out) I placed an order for two more Pi-s so that I could dump some of the services across the two Pis with 256mb, I guess I am now getting two 512mb ones, weee, now the Pi "cluster" is officially an upgrade for the machine it is replacing... "lol".
Your Raspberry Pi order was despatched today.
If you ordered a Raspberry Pi board as part of your order we are pleased to inform you that we have sent you the upgraded 512MB Revision 2 board to thank you for your continued patience.
We hope this upgrade is acceptable to you.
If you ordered a Raspberry Pi board as part of your order we are pleased to inform you that we have sent you the upgraded 512MB Revision 2 board to thank you for your continued patience.
We hope this upgrade is acceptable to you.
Mine will arrive end of November. fark...
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It ain't that bad, and the upgrade cost is hardly prohibitive.
Sure, but the queue doesn't seem to bloody end...
got mine today. it's still 256Mb model, as it was dispatched ~a month ago.
and apparently there are no usb keyboards at my apartment to play with it :D
and apparently there are no usb keyboards at my apartment to play with it :D
Holy shit!
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221
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As of right now, all of the VideoCore driver code which runs on the ARM is available under a FOSS license (3-Clause BSD to be precise). The source is available from our new userland repository on GitHub. If you’re not familiar with the status of open source drivers on ARM SoCs this announcement may not seem like such a big deal, but it does actually mean that the BCM2835 used in the Raspberry Pi is the first ARM-based multimedia SoC with fully-functional, vendor-provided (as opposed to partial, reverse engineered) fully open-source drivers, and that Broadcom is the first vendor to open their mobile GPU drivers up in this way. We at the Raspberry Pi Foundation hope to see others follow.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221