Questions for Eben Upton to answer at Maker Faire?

Can you comment on whether this statement from http://elinux.org/RPi_Hardware is true, and if there are any updates on it?

"SoC:  CPU core [...] GPU core [...] DSP core:

There is a DSP, but there isn't currently a public API (Liz thinks the BC team are keen to make one available at some point)"

http://elinux.org/RPi_Hardware

Also, a surprising number* of SD memory cards are reported as sometimes or always not working with the R-Pi (not counting the Class 10 bug which is apparently fixed). Is there ongoing work to identify possible reasons for this?

*http://elinux.org/RPi_VerifiedPeripherals#SD_cards

Question for Eben at Maker Faire:

"Now that Pi production volumes have been raised by well over an order of magnitude compared to the original 10k batch, it's clear that Pi's BOM costs have plummetted as is normal in the industry, and will plummet further once manufactured in school volumes.  How will the Foundation and its manufacturing partners use this new BOM cost headroom in the design of Raspberry Pi v2?"

Morgaine.

In case Eben runs out of questions to answer, here's another:

"I want a Pi with headers on at least two opposite edges of the board in order to provide physical support for daughterboards / Pi plates.  It has been quite a common suggestion.  Is this the kind of improvement that you would consider for Pi v2?"

Morgaine.

Hi, I was able to ask Eben this directly.  He said they are keen to figure out a way to allow people to access the low-level functionality, but didn't give a definitive answer as to when or how.  He did say though that unfortunately it would not be via OpenCL.

Broadcom seems to need a top-level tete-a-tete with someone they can't ignore about openess.  Their legendary obsession with keeping information out of the public eye may be fine for commercial applications, but it's not fine for a board with educational goals.

I believe there should be over hundred thousand Pi's out in the world by the end of June.  If that does happened as planned, then I hope the shear number of people using them should push Broadcom in the right direction.  I took the progress with with the camera module and encoding on the RPi Foundation blog as a positive sign, but there is a lot of latent functionality remaining.

Sorry didn't get to ask this directly.  But our videographer recorded answers from Eben to many individual questions that were submitted.  I wasn't there at the time so I'm not sure exactly which ones will be included.  I believe the video production work is going on right now and will be posted in this group when ready.

Hi - sorry didn't get a chance to ask this one directly.  But video answers were filmed when I wasn't there so hopefully it was included.  Video production is going on right now and will posted in this group when ready (I'll post a note here if it ends up being elsewhere).

Hi - I did get to ask this one directly.  The current PCB design work is alterations for the Model A, but it doesn't appear that there are any current plans to modify the layout to have dual headers for either Model.  Eben did suggest putting Sugru atop the magjack might be a good idea to provide mechanical support for a daughter board. 

Hopefully, this request will be kept in mind when the time comes for a real v2.  I agree it makes for awkward vertical expansion unlike the BeagleBone and Arduino.