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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)"
Just watched http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIf4Fk2252A and the answer is at 21 minute mark.
Just watched http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIf4Fk2252A and the answer is at 21 minute mark.
Yeah, I watched the section at 21mins a second time, and it's really depressing. Broadcom just doesn't care twopence about the open community, not even when they suddenly find themselves in the limelight heading a programme designed for open education. Pitiful.
If you look at the ridiculous "justifications" they give at http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=6188 , it really highlights how they have absolutely no logical ground to stand on for keeping the APIs closed.
It summarizes pretty clearly as "We won't open because we don't do that, so go away." I don't expect any movement whatsoever from them, as Broadcom has always had that reputation for being unfriendly to the open source community.