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Questions for Eben Upton to answer at Maker Faire?

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fustini over 13 years ago

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

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    Former Member over 13 years ago

    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

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    fustini over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

    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.

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    fustini over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

    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.

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    morgaine over 13 years ago in reply to fustini

    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.

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    fustini over 13 years ago in reply to morgaine

    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.

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