Raspberry Pi 3 Is Looking Towards Upstream Kernel Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Raspberry Pi 3 Is Looking Towards Upstream Kernel Support

With the Raspberry Pi 3 64-bit ARM $35 development board that launched earlier this week, there is working open-source kernel code for this new board powered by the Broadcom BCM2837 and it's looking like it hopefully won't be too long before the support is mainlined...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Raspberry-Pi-3-Upstream-State

[pal666]

so instead of giving board to 50 forum users they gave it to one fulltime developer. how intricately

[caligula]

8 million sold Raspberries and they can only afford one developer? Sunxi is much larger *developer* community although the GPL violator Allwinner doesn't contribute anything back and no money is spent on driver development.

[W.Irrkopf]

so instead of giving board to 50 forum users they gave it to one fulltime developer. how intricately

IIRC, Eric Anholt is an employee of Broadcom and Broadcom is a big fan of *not* handing out documentation. So the gripe here is the problem with Broadcom and the lack of documentation that would allow "true" open source development.

[W.Irrkopf]

8 million sold Raspberries and they can only afford one developer? Sunxi is much larger *developer* community although the GPL violator Allwinner doesn't contribute anything back and no money is spent on driver development.

By your logic, that number should be zero developers. Eric Anholt is an employee of Broadcom.

[jacob]

Will it be able to run in 64bit mode?

[pal666]

Broadcom is a big fan of *not* handing out documentation

like this http://www.broadcom.com/docs/support...IV-AG100-R.pdf ?
now show me comparable documentation for mali from arm which is supposedly a big fan of *handing* out documentation

[pal666]

Will it be able to run in 64bit mode?

yes, it will

[pal666]

8 million sold Raspberries and they can only afford one developer?

800 millions of much more expensive intel gpus sold and how many hundred developers they have?

[caligula]

800 millions of much more expensive intel gpus sold and how many hundred developers they have?

To be honest they're doing quite well actually. If you read phoronix ,you'll see that Intel soon has the best free OpenGL / OpenGL ES support (with blobs, but nevertheless). They don't need to hire hundreds since they don't have enough competition. Raspberry foundation is non-profit so they should give back instead of helping investors.