Got questions for Eben Upton of the Raspberry Pi Foundation? He will be answering them at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend.
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Cheers,
Drew
Got questions for Eben Upton of the Raspberry Pi Foundation? He will be answering them at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend.
Tweet at @element14 with #AskEben or post your question here.
Cheers,
Drew
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)"
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.
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.