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Unfortunately, there are a few parts of RPi that are closed, like the GPU, if I recall correctly, but I do agree with you that it sort of goes against the philo
by farresito 11y ago
Unfortunately, there are a few parts of RPi that are closed, like the GPU, if I recall correctly, but I do agree with you that it sort of goes against the philosophy of tinkering that openness brings.
- tankenmate 11y agoThere is a reasonable Gallium / Mesa driver for the GPU on the way; for simple OpenGL / OpenCL workloads it works reasonably well. It is being actively worked on so it is still improving. https://wiki.freedesktop.org/dri/VC4/ https://wiki.freedesktop.org/dri/VC4/
- makomk 11y agoThe GPU is only partially closed. Unfortunately, the part of the GPU that's closed and requires a binary blob is the bit that boots the Pi, so you have to use closed-source code in order to do anything with the Pi at all - even stuff that doesn't use the GPU.