[haiku] Re: Haiku for Raspberry Pi?

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 02:05:58 +0200

Le 05/09/2011 20:48, Simon Taylor a écrit :
> On 05/09/2011 18:42, Ivan Vodopiviz wrote:
>> Thanks for the insights Simon. For some reason, I can't find much
>> information on that part. Google only finds mentions to the Raspberry
>> Pi and the sites where I usually get data sheets don't have anything.
> 
> I don't think there's actually a full SoC available yet - my comments
> were based on their older "GPU" only product, which is in the latest
> Nokia range (N8 etc). The broadcom chip does GL/Imaging/Video en/decode
> but it's a separate chip from the ARM core. I don't know part numbers,
> but you can find benchmarks etc online. Most other phones have a
> single-chip solution with shared memory, whereas those N8/etc range have
> dedicated graphics memory on the GPU (but only a tiny amount, something
> like 20MB available to applications).
> 
> R-Pi seems to be based on a new single-chip solution with an ARM11 on
> the same chip and shared memory for the CPU and GPU. Lots of the R-Pi
> people work at Broadcom but I don't think the part is publicly available
> yet.

Are datasheets at least available ?

François.

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