[haiku-development] Re: Raspberry Pi (was: Re: Porting Haiku to a current PowerPC hardware)
- From: Efthimios Georgiadis <georgiadis.e@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:22:08 +0200
One thing I know for sure is that it would be fun to have a such small
device, put it out of your pocket, plug it in and run Haiku... ;)
/Efi
On 18 April 2012 22:28, Przemysław Pintal <premislaus1988@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Without the video driver does not make sense to use the Raspberry Pi.
> Because the whole is too weak, and thanks to the GPU you can decode
> 1080p.
>
> 2012/4/18 François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>:
> > On 18/04/2012 20:09, Pete Goodeve wrote:
> >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 07:03:42AM -0500, Alexander von Gluck wrote:
> >>> On 18.04.2012 03:17, Ralf Schülke wrote:
> >>>> Raspberry Pi = 30 €
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.raspberrypi.org/ [3]
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> +1.
> >>>
> >>> My Pi shows up in two days ^_^
> >>>
> >> Veering a bit from the original topic, I'll be very interested to follow
> >> the progress of "Pi-ku", but I wonder how feasible it will be.
> >>
> >> Coincidentally I was at a conference over the weekend where Eben
> >> Upton himself joined a session (via Skype) on Open Source Hardware.
> >> He pointed out that the Pi is not (yet) a completely open platform.
> >> I think the audio in particular is proprietary. So there might be some
> >> haggling involved before one could get a full port. He did say that
> they
> >> were working hard on opening everything, though.
> >
> > Well it's not that much of a problem since it ships with GNU/Linux, if
> > we have the source of the drivers. Of course it's not as easy as if the
> > specs were all open (as they should be).
> >
> > The biggest problem likely is the GPU which is proprietary. But well, we
> > are already used to VESA mode, so... :^)
> >
> > François
> >
>
>
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Best Regards
E.Georgiadis
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